Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-30 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/29/2015 09:19 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote: On 2015-04-29 16:46:13 -0700 (-0700), Joe Gordon wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Kyle Mestery mest...@mestery.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com [...] 1) Project governance has moved to a big

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/29/2015 12:33 PM, neil.jer...@metaswitch.com wrote: ‎Thanks Russell and Kyle for explaining. I think I get the picture now, in particular of how these backend projects are mostly under separate management, but at the same time subject to PTL oversight and 'part of the wider Neutron

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread Neil.Jerram
@lists.openstack.org Reply To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code On 04/28/2015 01:17 PM, Neil Jerram wrote: Apologies for commenting so late, but I'm not clear on the concept of bringing all

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread Doug Wiegley
of thing that you have in mind? Original Message ‎ From: Russell Bryant‎ Sent: Tuesday, 28 April 2015 18:57 To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org Reply To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/29/2015 01:25 PM, Doug Wiegley wrote: My take on the “where does it fit” yardstick: Does it stand on its own and add value? Then consider it a standalone project, *or* part of neutron if you and neutron agree that it fits. Does it *require* neutron to be useful? Then consider having

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread Joe Gordon
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Kyle Mestery mest...@mestery.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project governance issues as a TC member and also implementation of a new virtual

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-04-29 16:46:13 -0700 (-0700), Joe Gordon wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Kyle Mestery mest...@mestery.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com [...] 1) Project governance has moved to a big tent model [1]. The vast majority of projects

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-29 Thread loy wolfe
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:44 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/29/2015 01:25 PM, Doug Wiegley wrote: My take on the “where does it fit” yardstick: Does it stand on its own and add value? Then consider it a standalone project, *or* part of neutron if you and neutron agree that

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/27/2015 08:52 PM, Armando M. wrote: Any project that fails to meet the criteria later can be dropped at any time. For example, if some repo is clearly unmaintained, it can be removed. If we open the door to excluding projects down the road, then wouldn't we need to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/28/2015 01:17 PM, Neil Jerram wrote: Apologies for commenting so late, but I'm not clear on the concept of bringing all possible backend projects back inside Neutron. I think my question is similar to what Henry and Mathieu are getting at below - viz: We just recently decided to

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Neil Jerram
Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, henry hly henry4...@gmail.commailto:henry4...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Armando M. arma...@gmail.commailto:arma

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Kyle Mestery
On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/22/2015 02:19 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: a) Adopt these as repositories under the Neutron project team. In this case, I would see them operating with their own review teams as they do today to avoid imposing

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Kyle Mestery
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/27/2015 08:52 PM, Armando M. wrote: Any project that fails to meet the criteria later can be dropped at any time. For example, if some repo is clearly unmaintained, it can be removed. If

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-28 Thread Kyle Mestery
questions) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, henry hly henry4...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Armando M. arma...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please also pay some attention on Cons

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-27 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/22/2015 02:19 PM, Russell Bryant wrote: a) Adopt these as repositories under the Neutron project team. In this case, I would see them operating with their own review teams as they do today to avoid imposing additional load on the neutron-core or neutron-specs-core teams. However, by

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-27 Thread Armando M.
Any project that fails to meet the criteria later can be dropped at any time. For example, if some repo is clearly unmaintained, it can be removed. If we open the door to excluding projects down the road, then wouldn't we need to take into account some form of 3rd party CI validation as

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-24 Thread Armando M.
If we've reached the point where we're arguing about naming, dos this mean we've built consensus on the yes, it makes sense for these to live under Neutron argument? I think we are in agreement that these projects need to find a more obvious home, they feel somewhat orphan otherwise. Most

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/22/2015 09:55 PM, Anita Kuno wrote: On 04/22/2015 09:46 PM, Kyle Mestery wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Armando M. arma...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 April 2015 at 11:19, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/22/2015 10:33 PM, Armando M. wrote: Would it make sense to capture these projects as simply 'affiliated', ie. with a loose relationship to Neutron, because they use/integrate with Neutron in some form or another (e.g. having 3rd-party, extending-api,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Armando M.
On 23 April 2015 at 07:32, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/22/2015 10:33 PM, Armando M. wrote: Would it make sense to capture these projects as simply 'affiliated', ie. with a loose relationship to Neutron, because they use/integrate with Neutron in

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Armando M.
On 23 April 2015 at 01:49, Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org wrote: Armando M. wrote: Is it sensible to assume that Stackforge is going away entirely at some point in the future, and we'll have a single namespace - OpenStack? The key difference between Stackforge and OpenStack is

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Armando M.
On 23 April 2015 at 09:58, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 07:32, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/22/2015 10:33 PM, Armando M. wrote: Would it

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/23/2015 01:19 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 09:58, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 07:32, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Fox, Kevin M
9:10 AM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code I agree with henry here. Armando, If we use your analogy with nova that doesn't build and deliver KVM, we can say that Neutron doesn't build

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Kyle Mestery
of the proposed split. Thanks, Kyle Thanks, Kevin -- *From:* Armando M. [arma...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Thursday, April 23, 2015 9:10 AM *To:* OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) *Subject:* Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Armando M.
I agree with henry here. Armando, If we use your analogy with nova that doesn't build and deliver KVM, we can say that Neutron doesn't build or deliver OVS. It builds a driver and an agent which manage OVS, just like nova which provides a driver to manage libvirt/KVM. Moreover, external

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Fox, Kevin M
+1 From: Armando M. [arma...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 7:44 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code Could you please also pay some

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Doug Wiegley
On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2015 01:19 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 09:58, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 07:32,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/23/2015 03:23 PM, Kyle Mestery wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Doug Wiegley doug...@parksidesoftware.com mailto:doug...@parksidesoftware.com wrote: On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Doug Wiegley
On Apr 23, 2015, at 1:42 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2015 03:23 PM, Kyle Mestery wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Doug Wiegley doug...@parksidesoftware.com mailto:doug...@parksidesoftware.com wrote: On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Russell Bryant

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Salvatore Orlando
Doug, HMS Octavia was a British mine sweeper that served during WW2 figthing German warships and u-boats somewhere in the sea. I therefore believe if you have anything against this name you are secretly a nazi. Does that work for the Godwin's law call? Salvatore On 23 April 2015 at 22:09, Doug

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Kyle Mestery
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Doug Wiegley doug...@parksidesoftware.com wrote: On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/23/2015 01:19 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 09:58, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Joshua Harlow
Russell Bryant wrote: On 04/23/2015 03:23 PM, Kyle Mestery wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Doug Wiegley doug...@parksidesoftware.commailto:doug...@parksidesoftware.com wrote: On Apr 23, 2015, at 11:57 AM, Russell Bryantrbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote:

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2015-04-23 12:45:14 -0700 (-0700), Joshua Harlow wrote: Maybe about time we make something like: http://projects.apache.org/indexes/category.html And link names to repos there...? http://governance.openstack.org/reference/projects/ is sort of our analogue there, I think. It's not exact,

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Russell Bryant
On 04/23/2015 12:14 PM, Armando M. wrote: On 23 April 2015 at 07:32, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com mailto:rbry...@redhat.com wrote: On 04/22/2015 10:33 PM, Armando M. wrote: Would it make sense to capture these projects as simply 'affiliated', ie.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Mathieu Rohon
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:28 AM, henry hly henry4...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Armando M. arma...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please also pay some attention on Cons of this ultimate splitting Kyle? I'm afraid it would hurt the user experiences. On the position

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread henry hly
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Armando M. arma...@gmail.com wrote: Could you please also pay some attention on Cons of this ultimate splitting Kyle? I'm afraid it would hurt the user experiences. On the position of Dev, A naked Neutron without official built-in reference implementation

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-23 Thread Thierry Carrez
Armando M. wrote: Is it sensible to assume that Stackforge is going away entirely at some point in the future, and we'll have a single namespace - OpenStack? The key difference between Stackforge and OpenStack is governance. Any project can be in Stackforge. Projects that are considered

[openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Russell Bryant
Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project governance issues as a TC member and also implementation of a new virtual networking alternative with a Neutron driver. So, naturally I started thinking about how the Neutron driver code fits in to OpenStack governance. There are

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Fox, Kevin M
From: Kyle Mestery [mest...@mestery.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 12:30 PM To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Russell Bryant rbry

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Kyle Mestery
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project governance issues as a TC member and also implementation of a new virtual networking alternative with a Neutron driver. So, naturally I started

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Armando M.
Would it make sense to capture these projects as simply 'affiliated', ie. with a loose relationship to Neutron, because they use/integrate with Neutron in some form or another (e.g. having 3rd-party, extending-api, integrating-via-plugin-model, etc)? Then we could simply consider extending

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Armando M.
Could you please also pay some attention on Cons of this ultimate splitting Kyle? I'm afraid it would hurt the user experiences. On the position of Dev, A naked Neutron without official built-in reference implementation probably has a more clear architecture. On the other side, users would

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Armando M.
On 22 April 2015 at 11:19, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project governance issues as a TC member and also implementation of a new virtual networking alternative with a Neutron driver. So, naturally I started thinking

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Kyle Mestery
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:44 PM, Armando M. arma...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 April 2015 at 11:19, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project governance issues as a TC member and also implementation of a new virtual networking

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread loy wolfe
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Kyle Mestery mest...@mestery.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Russell Bryant rbry...@redhat.com wrote: Hello! A couple of things I've been working on lately are project governance issues as a TC member and also implementation of a new virtual

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code

2015-04-22 Thread Brandon Logan
List (not for usage questions) Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron] A big tent home for Neutron backend code +1 I was in the middle of writing an email asking about the possibility of splitting out the reference implementation. you beat me to it. :) I also like the idea of having the PTL