> 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.
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