Sure understood, I just want to make sure that we are doing it for the right reasons.
I just hope it isn't masquerading some other problem that is best solved another way. - Like is it performance problems that people need it so badly for, is it for network limitations, is it for HA, is it for ... I guess there is always version N+1 and u have to start N sometime, but lets just not have to take it out in N+2 (and the pain that that causes). That¹s all. On 10/4/12 7:33 PM, "Tom Fifield" <fifie...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: >On 05/10/12 03:40, Joshua Harlow wrote: >> Along this type of line, I know we've talked about it before. >> >> But is cells the right way that we want to go? Not that it isn't, but >> possibly at the summit we can talk about it in detail before pushing it >> into trunk. > >Given the overflowing room of people who turned up to the last summit to >talk about Cells, the enormous amount of positive feedback there, the >fact it's been so delayed and that the code is already ~done and being >used in production in some instances, waiting to get it into trunk >(which is already becoming more and more difficult to do) seems like a >suboptimal idea. > >By all means, discuss the methodology, propose an excellent new idea, >code it up and rip cells out then. However, knocking back something >that's this far advanced just seems a little cruel for both those who >worked so hard, and the deployers who have been screaming for it :) > >In NeCTAR's case (perhaps in Rackspace and HP's case before us?), we >can't wait, we're happy with Cells and we're going live with it whether >it's in trunk or not. However, it would really, really, really, really >make it easier to make an awesome OpenStack-based cloud if it was in >trunk :) > >Regards, > >Tom > >> >> From: Chris Behrens <cbehr...@codestud.com >><mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com>> >> Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2012 4:57 AM >> To: Sam Morrison <sorri...@gmail.com <mailto:sorri...@gmail.com>> >> Cc: "openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net>" <openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> <mailto:openstack@lists.launchpad.net>>, Chris Behrens >> <cbehr...@codestud.com <mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com>> >> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cells Status >> >> Ok. This took a lot longer to resolve than I expected, but here we go: >> >> https://github.com/comstud/nova/tree/cells_service >> >> This is rebased against trunk and contains a bunch of new things since >> the last branch: >> >> Random fixes for things that trunk broke with cells (deleting instances >> for one) >> RPC versioning (Thanks to Brian Elliott!) >> Split Replies and Bandwidth Updates into their own queues to better deal >> with them >> A number of admin API extensions modified to support cells (Thanks to >> Dragon, Alex Meade, Brian Lamar, Matt Sherborne, et al) >> Snapshots/backups query glance in API cell (Thanks to Iccha) >> Handle quotas in API cell (Thanks to Johannes for fixes!) >> >> Things are rapidly getting more kludgy because of changes in trunk that >> don't have any consideration for cells (because cells is not in trunk!). >> I'm hoping we can get this into an acceptable shape such that we can >> get it merged ASAP. >> >> - Chris >> >> >> On Oct 2, 2012, at 10:13 PM, Sam Morrison <sorri...@gmail.com >> <mailto:sorri...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>> OK great, will be good to get this into master. I have some stuff >>> relating to key pairs, security groups that I'd like to contribute. >>> >>> Also we are looking at the ability for you to specify the cell when >>> booting an instance. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Sam >>> >>> >>> On 02/10/2012, at 1:06 PM, Chris Behrens <cbehr...@codestud.com >>> <mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yup, it's done. I just have to deal with some conflicts with our >>>> internal branch and my public one.. >>>> >>>> >>>> On Oct 1, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Sam Morrison <sorri...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:sorri...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 02/10/2012, at 12:33 PM, Chris Behrens <cbehr...@codestud.com >>>>> <mailto:cbehr...@codestud.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, Tom! I have changes to push up that add rpc versioning, >>>>>> etc. Maybe I can get those up tomorrow. >>>>> >>>>> Great! I was going to start looking into it but will hold off if >>>>> you've already done it. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Sam >>>> >>> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp