On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Sean Dague <s...@dague.net> wrote: > The following review for Kilo deprecates the EC2 API in Nova - > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/150929/ > > There are a number of reasons for this. The EC2 API has been slowly > rotting in the Nova tree, never was highly tested, implements a > substantially older version of what AWS has, and currently can't work > with any recent releases of the boto library (due to implementing > extremely old version of auth). This has given the misunderstanding that > it's a first class supported feature in OpenStack, which it hasn't been > in quite sometime. Deprecating honestly communicates where we stand. > > There is a new stackforge project which is getting some activity now - > https://github.com/stackforge/ec2-api. The intent and hope is that is > the path forward for the portion of the community that wants this > feature, and that efforts will be focused there. >
FYI: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-January/055041.html > > Comments are welcomed, but we've attempted to get more people engaged to > address these issues over the last 18 months, and never really had > anyone step up. Without some real maintainers of this code in Nova (and > tests somewhere in the community) it's really no longer viable. > > -Sean > > -- > Sean Dague > http://dague.net > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > >
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