On 11/01/16 15:52 -0500, Flavio Percoco wrote:
Greetings,
Gentle reminder that this is happening next week.
Cheers,
Flavio
----- Original Message -----
From: "Flavio Percoco" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 9:16:09 AM
Subject: [glance][all] glance_store drivers deprecation/stabilization:
Volunteers needed
Greetings,
As some of you know, there's a proposal (still a rough draft) for
refactoring the glance_store API. This library is the home for the
store drivers used by Glance to save or access the image data.
As other drivers in OpenStack, this library is facing the issue of
having unmaintained, untested and incomplete implementations of stores
that are, hypotetically, being used in production environments.
In order to guarantee some level of stability and, more important,
maintenance, the Glance team is looking for volunteers to sign up as
maintainers/keepers of the existing drivers.
Unfortunately, given the fact that our team is not as big as we would
like and that we don't have the knowledge to provide support for every
single driver, the Glance team will have to deprecate, and later
remove, the drivers that will remain without a maintainer.
Each driver will have to have a voting CI job running (maintained by
the driver maintainer) that will have to run Glance's functional tests
to ensure the API features are also supported by the driver.
There are 2 drivers I belive shouldn't fall into this category and
that should be maintained by the Glance community itself. These
drivers are:
- Filesystem
- Http
Please, find the full list of drivers here[0] and feel free to sign up
as volunteer in as many drivers as your time permits to maintain.
Please, provide all the information required as the lack of it will
result in the candidacy not being valid. As some sharp eyes will
notice, the Swift driver is not in the list above. The reason for that
is that, although it's a key piece of OpenStack, not everyone in the
Glance community knows the code of that driver well-enough and there
are enough folks that know it that could perhaps volunteer as
maintainers/reviewers for it. Furthermore, adding the swift driver
there would mean we should probably add the Cinder one as well as it's
part of OpenStack just like Swift. We can extend that list later. For
now, I'd like to focus on bringing some stability to the library.
The above information, as soon as it's complete or the due date is
reached, will be added to glance_store's docs so that folks know where
to find the drivers maintainers and who to talk to when things go
south.
Here's an attempt to schedule some of this work (please refer to
this tag[0.1] and this soon-to-be-approved review[0.2] to have more
info w.r.t the deprecation times and backwards compatibility
guarantees):
- By mitaka 2 (Jan 16-22), all drivers should have a maintainer.
Drivers without one, will be marked as deprecated in Mitaka.
This has been done!
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/glance_store/drivers/index.html
Only 1 driver was left without maintainer and, as established, I've marked it as
deprecated:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/266077/
Thanks to everyone who volunteered!
Thanks for leading this Flavio!
Flavio
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