> On Mar 21, 2016, at 2:33 PM, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 21/03/16 17:23, "Doug Hellmann" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Mar 20, 2016, at 3:26 PM, Tim Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Doug, >>> >>> Given that the EC2 functionality is currently in use by at least 1/6th of >>> production clouds >>> (https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/Public-User-Survey-Report.pdf page >>> 34), this is a worrying situation. >> >> I completely agree. >> >>> >>> The EC2 functionality was recently deprecated from Nova on the grounds that >>> the EC2 API project was the correct way to proceed. With the proposal now >>> to not have an EC2 API project at all, this will leave many in the >>> community confused. >> >> That wasn't the proposal. We have lots of unofficial projects. My suggestion >> was that if the EC2 team wasn't participating in the community governance >> process, we should not list them as official. That doesn't mean disbanding >> the project, just updating our reference materials to reflect reality and >> clearly communicat expectations. It sounds like that was a misunderstanding >> which has been cleared up, though, so I think we're all set to continue >> considering it an official project. > > There is actually quite a lot of activity going on to get the EC2 API to an > easy state to deploy. CERN has been involved in the puppet-ec2api and RDO > packaging which currently does not count as participation in the EC2 API > project given the split of repositories. However, it is critical for > deployment of a project that it can be installed and configured.
That's a great point, and in the future I'll look at packaging and other related repos when trying to gauge activity. Doug > > Tim > >> >> Doug >> >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 20/03/16 17:48, "Doug Hellmann" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> ... >>>> >>>> The EC2-API project doesn't appear to be very actively worked on. >>>> There is one very recent commit from an Oslo team member, another >>>> couple from a few days before, and then the next one is almost a >>>> month old. Given the lack of activity, if no team member has >>>> volunteered to be PTL I think we should remove the project from the >>>> official list for lack of interest. >>> __________________________________________________________________________ >>> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >>> Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
