Sorry, that was by mistake.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:19 PM, Rishi Raj Singh <rishiraj.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > 7i > On Mar 3, 2015 8:30 PM, "Radoslaw Zarzynski" <rzarzyn...@mirantis.com> > wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> I would like discuss a problem which can be seen in Horizon: breaking >> the boundaries of public, well-specified Object Storage API in favour >> of utilizing a Swift-specific extensions. Ticket #1297173 [1] may serve >> as a good example of such violation. It is about relying on >> non-standard (in the terms of OpenStack Object Storage API v1) and >> undocumented HTTP header provided by Swift. In order to make >> Ceph RADOS Gateway work correctly with Horizon, developers had to >> inspect sources of Swift and implement the same behaviour. >> >> From my perspective, that practise breaks the the mission of OpenStack >> which is much more than delivering yet another IaaS/PaaS implementation. >> I think its main goal is to provide a universal set of APIs covering all >> functional areas relevant for cloud computing, and to place that set >> of APIs in front as many implementations as possible. Having an open >> source reference implementation of a particular API is required to prove >> its viability, but is secondary to having an open and documented API. >> >> I have full understanding that situations where the public OpenStack >> interfaces are insufficient to get the work done might exist. >> However, introduction of dependency on implementation-specific feature >> (especially without giving the users a choice via e.g. some >> configuration option) is not the proper way to deal with the problem. >> From my point of view, such cases should be handled with adoption of >> new, carefully designed and documented version of the given API. >> >> In any case I think that Horizon, at least basic functionality, should >> work with any storage which provides Object Storage API. >> That being said, I'm willing to contribute such patches, if we decide >> to go that way. >> >> Best regards, >> Radoslaw Zarzynski >> >> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/horizon/+bug/1297173 >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> 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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