Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Averting the Nova crisis by splitting out virt drivers

2014-09-05 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
cluttered; we split functions when they get too big, we split modules when they get too big, and we create subdirectories when packages get too big, so why not split repos when they get too big? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev m

Re: [openstack-dev] doubling our core review bandwidth

2014-09-08 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ve +A in the hands of the existing cores? That way, their reviews can be counted by the core reviewers. With this change in policy, you still need two +2s, but you have more people that can +2, and you only need one of our limited number of cores to

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] [nova] non-deterministic gate failures due to unclosed eventlet Timeouts

2014-09-09 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ut.side_effect = etimeout.Timeout() I looked into that too, but the docs for Timeout indicate that it's an Exception subclass, and passing it no args doesn't seem to start the timer running. I think you have to explicitly pass a duration value for Timeout to enable its timeout be

Re: [openstack-dev] [solum] pep8 - splitting expressions

2014-09-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
pecan.request.host_url) By moving the first argument to a line by itself, pep8 can be satisfied by indenting the following lines by 4 spaces. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [solum] pep8 - splitting expressions

2014-09-12 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 18:35 -0500, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Sep 11, 2014, at 5:05 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell > wrote: > > > I'd suggest trying: > > > >res = amodel.Assemblies( > >uri=common.ASSEM_URI_STR % pecan.request.host_url, >

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Remove ratelimits from nova v3 api

2013-11-25 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
l users could DOS Openstack ! I'm going to suggest that something like Turnstile[1] with nova_limits[2] is the way to go here for ratelimiting. [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/turnstile [2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/nova_limits -- Kevin

Re: [openstack-dev] Printing to stdout

2013-12-04 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
rint on this. I'd be happy to take care of this. Can you be a little more specific? In what context do you want to print to stdout? That is, which client? (Servers should never print to stdout; use the logging infrastructure for output.) -- Kevin L. Mi

Re: [openstack-dev] [All] tagged commit messages

2013-12-30 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
such an attachment even if the review has already been merged? Just something to think about :) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Oslo] Improving oslo-incubator update.py

2014-01-13 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ibrary we use directly, rather than a repository we copy out of. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] status of quota class

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
otas should change to match. This could be done by manually updating each quota that affects them, but a single change to a single attribute makes better sense. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.opens

Re: [openstack-dev] Hacking and PEP 257: Extra blank line at end of multi-line docstring

2014-02-25 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ith Emacs. I submitted the change that eliminated that language from nova's HACKING at the time… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] What is the currently accepted way to do plugins

2014-03-04 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
t using 'unstable' as a component of the entrypoint group? E.g., "nova.unstable.events"… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] What is the currently accepted way to do plugins

2014-03-04 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
t the entrypoint itself is unstable—nova shouldn't care, it should just use it… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] Quota management and enforcement across projects

2014-11-19 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
service; from there, we can see whether it makes sense to roll it into Keystone or maintain it as a separate thing. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] Counting resources

2014-11-20 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
to cover cases such as an LDAP backend? That could be as simple as allowing a null value. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Handling soft delete for instance rows in a new cells database

2014-11-24 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
to objects; one could even include a column to record who performed the change. And of course I've suggested this as a DB table, but we could also consider the merits of ditching the table and doing the same thing as some sort of notification through the notifications system… -- Kevi

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] Using query string or request body to pass parameter

2014-12-08 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 14:07 +0800, Eli Qiao wrote: > I wonder if we can use body in delete, currently , there isn't any > case used in v2/v3 api. No, many frameworks raise an error if you try to include a body with a DELETE request. -- Kevin L. Mitchell

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] Using query string or request body to pass parameter

2014-12-08 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
question for delete, also for other method. > > 2014-12-09 1:11 GMT+08:00 Kevin L. Mitchell : > On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 14:07 +0800, Eli Qiao wrote: > > I wonder if we can use body in delete, currently , there isn't any > > case used in v2/v3 api. >

Re: [openstack-dev] [hacking] proposed rules drop for 1.0

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
k we should keep the H301, H303, H304, and the basic ordering checks, however; it doesn't seem to me that these would be that difficult to implement or maintain. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [hacking] proposed rules drop for 1.0

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
was referring to is H306, which isn't all that complicated. It seems like the rest of the code is related to the checks which I just agreed should be dropped :) Am I missing anything? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list

Re: [openstack-dev] [hacking] proposed rules drop for 1.0

2014-12-09 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ouldn't be expecting any relative imports (and should raise an error if there are any). Still, that does show that some work needs to be done to the simpler H306 test (probably involving changes to the core import normalization)… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace _

Re: [openstack-dev] ask for usage of quota reserve

2014-12-18 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
oximately one day, then be automatically rolled back by the scheduler. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] should 'ip address' be retrived when decribe host?

2014-12-30 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
service, which may be separate from the hypervisor. For instance, on Xen-based setups, the host runs in a VM on the hypervisor. There has also been discussion of allowing one host to be responsible for multiple hypervisors, which would be useful for providers with large numbers of hypervisors.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] should 'ip address' be retrived when decribe host?

2014-12-31 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
runs directly on the hypervisor… but this is not necessarily the case for all virt drivers. For example, the host for Xen-based installations is often a separate VM on the same hypervisor, which would have its own distinct IP address. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] [sdk] Proposal to achieve consistency in client side sorting

2015-01-06 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ot; is the way to go, but I helped hash that out in the novaclient implementation as a reviewer. I also had suggestions about how it should be transmitted in the REST API, but that had already been settled at the blueprint phase; that may be something the API WG will want to take up and review

[openstack-dev] [oslo] Test failures due to oslo_concurrency?

2015-01-13 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
http://logs.openstack.org/26/145626/2/check/gate-nova-python27/b350bbc/console.html -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstac

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] Optional Properties in an Entity

2015-01-19 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
that we should encourage the first situation, where all properties are included, even if their value is null. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe:

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][gate][stable] How eventlet 0.16.1 broke the gate

2015-01-22 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
yword argument: " "'session'" ) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][neutron]SystemExit() vs sys.exit()?

2014-05-01 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
lly be printed, as that could confuse users; no one expects a successfully executed script to print a traceback, after all :) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/c

[openstack-dev] [requirements] Odd behavior from requirements checks

2014-06-10 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
here: http://logs.openstack.org/68/96268/6/check/gate-python-novaclient-requirements/ea3cdf2/console.html Anyone have any insights into this? I've seen the same thing happening on nova. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev m

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tox issues on a clean environment

2014-03-06 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
same error today. We may have to consider a short-term pin to the version of setuptools (if that's even possible) on projects that encounter the problem… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack

Re: [openstack-dev] Duplicate code for processing REST APIs

2014-03-13 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
and then deprecate these functions? Um, all of the referenced files are already in oslo; that's what the openstack/common subtree contains. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [All][Keystone] Deprecation of the v2 API

2014-04-02 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
r feature is > being used and the impact of depreciation. Exercising my penchant for precision: "depreciation" or "deprecation"? I hope that the openstack code base isn't depreciating, even if parts of it are being deprec

Re: [openstack-dev] Quota Management

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
rtly because of lack of interest from the rest of the community at the time. I'd say that, currently, Boson is facing the chicken-and-egg problem—no one works on it because no one is working on it. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-d

Re: [openstack-dev] Quota Management

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 10:54 -0700, Jay Pipes wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 12:13 -0500, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 09:22 -0700, Jay Pipes wrote: > > > Boson does indeed look interesting, but who is working on it, if anyone > > > at this p

Re: [openstack-dev] Quota Management

2014-04-03 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 19:16 +, Cazzolato, Sergio J wrote: > Jay, thanks for taking ownership on this idea, we are really > interested to contribute to this, so what do you think are the next > steps to move on? Perhaps a summit session on quota management would be in order? --

Re: [openstack-dev] [Globalization] REST API sorting by status severity vs. alphabetical status key

2014-04-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
that migration will end up taking… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Globalization] REST API sorting by status severity vs. alphabetical status key

2014-04-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
the order of a couple of releases; that would give plenty of time for the majority of the records to be revisited and make the final migration run for a lot shorter time. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.

[openstack-dev] [neutron] [infra] Python 2.6 tests can't possibly be passing in neutron

2014-09-22 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
—I have proposed a review[1] to replace it with a simple dict. [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/123189/ -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] [infra] Python 2.6 tests can't possibly be passing in neutron

2014-09-22 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
the case here. Further, there's no reason that _get_collection_kwargs() needs to use an OrderedDict: it's initialized in an arbitrary order (generator comprehension over a set), then later passed to functions with **, which converts it to a plain old dict

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Some ideas for micro-version implementation

2014-09-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ondering about is if we should create a unified ReST API service to replace the service from all of the individual projects. Then, users can just hit that one service to handle all their different interactions. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Some ideas for micro-version implementation

2014-09-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
tps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDK-Development/PythonOpenStackSDK Well, openstacksdk is a client, and we're talking about a server. A server, in this instance, has some advantages over a client, including making it easier to create that client in the first place :) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [All] API standards working group

2014-09-24 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 18:18 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote: > Yes, I'd be willing to head up the working group... or at least > participate in it. I'll raise my hand to participate… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailin

[openstack-dev] [api] API recommendation

2014-10-15 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
tion itself would be listed on that operation. As a side effect, this would allow us (not require, though) to queue up operations on a resource, and allow us to cancel an operation that has not yet been started. Thoughts? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] API recommendation

2014-10-15 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Wed, 2014-10-15 at 12:39 -0400, Andrew Laski wrote: > On 10/15/2014 11:49 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > Now that we have an API working group forming, I'd like to kick off some > > discussion over one point I'd really like to see our APIs using (and > > I

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] python 2.6 support for oslo libraries

2014-10-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
alled :) As for the clients, we could probably drop that segment now; it's not like we *test* against 2.4, right? :) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] python 2.6 support for oslo libraries

2014-10-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
e? I missed the [oslo] tag in the subject line and was thinking generally; so no, none of the Xen plugins use anything from oslo, because of the need to support 2.4. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.o

Re: [openstack-dev] Process for program without lead

2014-11-17 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
e been put forward with 3 days left in the nomination period, then the election coordinator would send out the appropriate reminder email. I think this would have the same effect as the one week re-open period without delaying the election process. --

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] Requesting opinion/guideline on IDs vs hrefs

2014-11-17 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ing anything. We may have *links* in the payloads, but those are provided for convenience; anytime nova refers to a flavor, it returns the flavor UUID. I would, by the way, suggest using UUIDs rather than plain IDs, for consistency with the rest of the APIs… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace

Re: [openstack-dev] Quota management and enforcement across projects

2014-11-17 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
g it for purposes outside of OpenStack…) Just my $.02… [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Boson -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [hacking] rules for removal

2014-06-24 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
;your first patch" bot and mentioned in the Gerrit workflow page. That way, reviewers are using a consistent terminology—"femtonit" is hardly standard English, after all; it's a specialty term we've invented —and developers have guidance on what it means and what they shoul

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Limits API and project-user-quotas

2014-07-09 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
you should have to go to the quotas API to get information about quotas. I really dislike the fact that we have two different sources for the same information, and the feature drift that's occurred here is an excellent argument for my stance :) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __

[openstack-dev] [nova][all] Old review expiration

2014-07-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
he several reviews that no core dev looked at in an entire month, but I have no solutions to suggest there, unfortunately :( -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][all] Old review expiration

2014-07-14 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ave no solutions to suggest there, > > unfortunately :( > > Patches of your own or patches of other folks? Patches of other folks. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] [Spec freeze exception] Online Schema Changes

2014-07-21 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
. > > Improving upgrades is high priority, and I feel it will help reduce > the amount of downtime required when performing database migrations. > > So I am happy to sponsor this. I will also sponsor this for an exception. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Question about thread safe of key-pair and securtiy rules quota

2014-07-24 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
It may be worthwhile to add some sanity-checking to limit_check() and reserve() that ensure that they only work with the correct resource type(s), in order to prevent this sort of problem from occurring in the future. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace _

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] stable branches & failure to handle review backlog

2014-07-30 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ed to do is give *-core permission to +2 the patches, but only stable/maint team has *approval* permission. Then, the cores can review the code, and stable/maint only has to verify applicability to the stable branch… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Nominating Jay Pipes for nova-core

2014-07-30 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 14:02 -0700, Michael Still wrote: > I would like to nominate Jay Pipes for the nova-core team. +1 -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] oslo.config and import chains

2014-08-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
oo_opt … That ensures that arg will be the configured value, and should also solve the import conflict. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] oslo.config and import chains

2014-08-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 10:55 -0500, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > On 8/7/2014 10:27 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 12:15 +0100, Matthew Booth wrote: > >> A (the?) solution is to register_opts() in foo before importing any > >> modules wh

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] oslo.config and import chains

2014-08-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 17:27 +0100, Matthew Booth wrote: > On 07/08/14 16:27, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 12:15 +0100, Matthew Booth wrote: > >> A (the?) solution is to register_opts() in foo before importing any > >> modules which

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] oslo.config and import chains

2014-08-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ation value at _module load time_ rather than at run time. It is wrong for the same reason that "def foo(arg={})" is wrong. If you fix the time at which evaluation occurs, importing is no longer a problem. > Is there any reason not to call register_opts() > before importing other m

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] oslo.config and import chains

2014-08-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
not be evaluated at LOAD-TIME, which is what your original code does. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][oslo] oslo.config and import chains

2014-08-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
possible. After all, I doubt anyone would seriously suggest that we must always use something like the "_unset" sentinel, even when None has no special meaning… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] Shall backward compatibility env. vars be removed from python-clients?

2013-11-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ybe keep it for ~6 months? The thing here is, these environment variables have already been deprecated for quite some time. The question is, have they been deprecated long enough that we're clear to drop them entirely? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace _

Re: [openstack-dev] Shall backward compatibility env. vars be removed from python-clients?

2013-11-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
n I catch them in novaclient, but I figure if we can remove the NOVA_* environment variables, we can probably also remove those wholesale, and that should effectively discourage the pattern-matching that causes developers to try to include them in the first place :) -- Kevin L. Mitch

Re: [openstack-dev] XML Support for Nova v3 API

2013-06-20 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
gt; > The current plan is to keep it and is what we have been doing so far > when porting extensions, but there are pretty obvious long term > development and test savings if we only have one API format to > support. I vote for dropping XML like a h

Re: [openstack-dev] XML Support for Nova v3 API

2013-06-20 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
deliver a world class JSON API with > validation and schema and comprehensive testing, than the current state > of our JSON + XML approach which is poorly documented and only partially > tested. +1. Let's drop XML like a ho

Re: [openstack-dev] Cells design issue

2013-06-21 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ls. I'm assuming that was to avoid a bottleneck, but Chris Behrens would be able to say better exactly why this design choice was made. All I'm doing in this discussion is trying to address one element of the current design; I'm n

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Nominating John Garbutt for nova-core

2013-06-26 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ing and reviewing in other areas, as well. Based on my > experience with him I think he would be a good addition, so it would be > great to have him on board to help keep up with the review load. -- Kevin L. Mitchell ___ OpenStack-dev mai

Re: [openstack-dev] Opinions needed: Changing method signature in RPC callback ...

2013-07-18 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ts. The other is to use the functions in the "inspect" module to determine what convention the callback is expecting. -- Kevin L. Mitchell ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bi

Re: [openstack-dev] Usage of mox through out the Openstack project.

2013-07-24 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
methodology, and I like its features. -- Kevin L. Mitchell ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo][all] Oslo libraries dropping python 2.6 compatability

2015-11-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
o.i18n, oslo.serialization, and oslo.utils. If we drop Python 2.6 compatibility on any of those three, we would also have to drop it from novaclient (and potentially other clients). Perhaps we need to have a discussion about whether the clients still need to support Python 2.6? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rac

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Versioned notifications... who cares about the version?

2015-11-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ad suggesting what you could think of as an audience *class*—this notification is intended for metrics consumers, this one is intended for log monitors, etc. That kind of data could be included in the actual notification, so you still have a single notif

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova]New Quota Subteam on Nova

2015-11-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ting. However, I'd like to start off by asking if "quota" is the correct concept? It might be worthwhile to make a detour and consider what the problem is we're actually trying to solve. I think in the end it'll still end up being recognizably "quota", but I think it

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova]New Quota Subteam on Nova

2015-12-03 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
prone to race conditions that are not a problem for other quota types. (For reference, the AbsoluteResource quotas are metadata_items, injected_files, injected_file_content_bytes, and injected_file_path_bytes; everything else is a ReservableResource.) -- Kev

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [python-novaclient] microversions support

2015-12-04 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
added unless the corresponding nova change has been merged… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] no user/project validation in "nova quota-show"?

2015-12-07 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
o apply to a tenant when there's no specific quota for that tenant in its database. That's why you're getting a reasonable-looking set of quota information. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Developm

Re: [openstack-dev] disabling deprecated APIs by config?

2016-05-18 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
key, would it make any sense at all to add additional keys? We could add a 'warnings' key in that top-level dictionary that could document deprecations, among other things. (That said, /capabilities or equivalent would probably be superior for this particular case…) -- Kevin L. Mit

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron][nova][oslo] Common backoff & timeout utils

2016-04-20 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
several backoff strategies. Of course, it's a decorator-based backoff implementation, whereas I tend to implement iterator-based solutions, but there may already be a solution in that space as well… -- Kevin L. Mitchell signature.asc Description: This is a digitall

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][Glance] Xenplugin + Glance_v2 = Hate

2015-12-29 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
plugins to use more recent versions of Python, we're going to have to warn the operator community about the consequences well in advance, so that all the issues can be worked out… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ Ope

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] service type vs. project name for use in headers

2016-01-28 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
I think the first phase is essentially complete at this point, but I think Chris is right that it's high time to decide whether the guidelines are normative or informative…and my vote would be for normative, and with a focus on the API consumer. After all, an API is useless if it's a pain

[openstack-dev] [nova][novaclient] Failing functional tests

2016-02-01 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
tenant with a name or ID of 'admin' exists." Anyone have any insights into why "admin" would be missing from novaclient's functional test suite? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenSta

Re: [openstack-dev] [all][tc] Proposal: Separate design summits from OpenStack conferences

2016-02-08 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
g the other distracting elements, such as schwag and giveaways… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsub

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ake it harder to maintain, such as ensuring the help text is updated when the code is. If nova were a smaller code base, I think it would make sense to reorganize in this fashion, but given how large nova actually is… -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ll become true of a single nova/flags.py if we go that route. I do like Roman's idea of centralizing them into a smattering of files, though. What if we were to create a new top-level package and split the config options up into a small number of individual files there?

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-23 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
file to files. I like that division based on subsection scheme; that seems perfect to me. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part __ OpenStack Development Mailing Li

Re: [openstack-dev] Quick question..

2015-07-30 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2015-07-30 at 15:27 -0700, Adam Lawson wrote: > How many "up" votes are needed for code to be accepted into the trunk > (assuming it passes testing etc)? Which project? Different projects may have different criteria. -- Kevin L. Mit

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] contextlib.nested and Python3 failing

2015-08-21 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
only necessary to work around that functionality being missing in Python 2.6, and has been deprecated as of Python 2.7 because it's no longer necessary. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing Lis

Re: [openstack-dev] [hacking] [style] multi-line imports PEP 0328

2015-08-25 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
to import more than one thing per line given the rule to only import modules, not objects. While that is not currently enforced by hacking, it is a strong style guideline. (Exceptions for things like sqlalchemy do exist, of course.) -- Kevin L.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [api] Nova currently handles list with limit=0 quite different for different objects.

2015-09-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
nge reads like an API change, requiring a microversion bump. That said, I approve of increased consistency across the API, and perhaps the behavior on limit=0 is something the API group needs to discuss a guideline for? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace

[openstack-dev] [infra][nova][all] Pillow breaking gate?

2015-10-01 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
It looks like Pillow (pulled in by blockdiag, pulled in by sphinxcontrib-seqdiag, in test-requirements.txt of nova and probably others) had a 3.0.0 release today, and now the gate is breaking because libjpeg isn't available in the image…thoughts on how best to address this problem? -- Ke

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][nova][all] Pillow breaking gate?

2015-10-01 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Thu, 2015-10-01 at 15:53 -0700, Clark Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015, at 03:48 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > It looks like Pillow (pulled in by blockdiag, pulled in by > > sphinxcontrib-seqdiag, in test-requirements.txt of nova and probably > > others) had a 3.0.0 r

[openstack-dev] [all] Doc dependencies (was: Re: [infra][nova][all] Pillow breaking gate?)

2015-10-02 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ntain only the doc dependencies? The appropriate doc environments in tox.ini would then need to be extended to pull in that file, and of course the global requirements tooling would have to be enhanced to recognize the new file as well. -- Kevin L. Mitchell

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Doc dependencies

2015-10-02 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Fri, 2015-10-02 at 11:00 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: > On 10/02/2015 10:53 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > The Pillow-breaking-gate issue was related to having doc dependencies > > listed in the test-requirements.txt; however, those dependencies are not > > needed for te

Re: [openstack-dev] Scheduler proposal

2015-10-08 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
y thrown away the scalability that deploying multiple schedulers was supposed to buy you. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage question

[openstack-dev] [nova] novaclient functional test failures

2015-10-12 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
address the problem? -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace __ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] novaclient functional test failures

2015-10-12 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
On Mon, 2015-10-12 at 12:16 -0400, Sean Dague wrote: > On 10/12/2015 11:54 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: > > Functional tests on novaclient (gate-novaclient-dsvm-functional) have > > started failing consistently. The test failures all seem to be for an > > HTTP 300, which

Re: [openstack-dev] [keystone] [nova] [oslo] oslo.policy requests from the Nova team

2015-06-02 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
ts mechanism to dynamically generate an output file in the interim (as is done for configuration now), which may improve the situation from Horizon's standpoint, until the discoverability piece is in place. -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace

Re: [openstack-dev] Looking for help getting git-review to work over https

2015-06-11 Thread Kevin L. Mitchell
f the https URL. You should be able to use "git remote remove gerrit" and re-run the "git review -s" to get that all fixed up. (Could also use "git remote set-url", FYI, but I figured starting from scratch may be easier for you…) -- Kevin L. Mitchell Rackspace

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