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Subject: Re: GlusterFS removal from Openstack Cinder
Date: Fri, 05 May 2017 21:07:27 +0000
From: Amye Scavarda <a...@redhat.com>
To: Eric Harney <ehar...@redhat.com>, Joe Julian <m...@joejulian.name>,
Vijay Bellur <vbel...@redhat.com>
CC: Amye Scavarda <a...@redhat.com>
Eric,
I'm sorry to hear this.
I'm reaching out internally (within Gluster CI team and CentOS CI which
supports Gluster) to get an idea of the level of effort we'll need to
provide to resolve this.
It'll take me a few days to get this, but this is on my radar. In the
meantime, is there somewhere I should be looking at for requirements to
meet this gateway?
Thanks!
-- amye
On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 16:09 Joe Julian <m...@joejulian.name
<mailto:m...@joejulian.name>> wrote:
On 05/05/2017 12:54 PM, Eric Harney wrote:
>> On 04/28/2017 12:41 PM, Joe Julian wrote:
>>> I learned, today, that GlusterFS was deprecated and removed from
>>> Cinder as one of our #gluster (freenode) users was attempting to
>>> upgrade openstack. I could find no rational nor discussion of that
>>> removal. Could you please educate me about that decision?
>>>
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> I can fill in on the rationale here.
>
> Keeping a driver in the Cinder tree requires running a CI platform to
> test that driver and report results against all patchsets
submitted to
> Cinder. This is a fairly large burden, which we could not meet
once the
> Gluster Cinder driver was no longer an active development target
at Red Hat.
>
> This was communicated via a warning issued by the driver for anyone
> running the OpenStack Newton code, and via the Cinder release
notes for
> the Ocata release. (I can see in retrospect that this was
probably not
> communicated widely enough.)
>
> I apologize for not reaching out to the Gluster community about this.
>
> If someone from the Gluster world is interested in bringing this
driver
> back, I can help coordinate there. But it will require someone
stepping
> in in a big way to maintain it.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
Ah, Red Hat's statement that the acquisition of InkTank was not an
abandonment of Gluster seems rather disingenuous now. I'm disappointed.
Would you please start a thread on the gluster-users and gluster-devel
mailing lists and see if there's anyone willing to take ownership of
this. I'm certainly willing to participate as well but my $dayjob has
gone more kubernetes than openstack so I have only my limited free time
that I can donate.
--
Amye Scavarda | a...@redhat.com <mailto:a...@redhat.com> | Gluster
Community Lead
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