Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-05 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
On Feb 3, 2015, at 6:19 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > On 02/03/2015 08:57 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Jesse Pretorius wrote: >>> I think that perhaps something that shouldn't be lost site of is that >>> the users using the EC2 API are using it as-is. The only commitment that >>> needs to be made is t

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-03 Thread Sean Dague
On 02/03/2015 08:57 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Jesse Pretorius wrote: >> I think that perhaps something that shouldn't be lost site of is that >> the users using the EC2 API are using it as-is. The only commitment that >> needs to be made is to maintain the functionality that's already there, >> r

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-03 Thread Thierry Carrez
Jesse Pretorius wrote: > I think that perhaps something that shouldn't be lost site of is that > the users using the EC2 API are using it as-is. The only commitment that > needs to be made is to maintain the functionality that's already there, > rather than attempt to keep it up to scratch with new

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-02 Thread Jesse Pretorius
On 2 February 2015 at 16:29, Sean Dague wrote: > It's really easy to say "someone should do this", but the problem is > that none of the core team is interested, neither is anyone else. Most > of the people that once were interested have left being active in > OpenStack. > > EC2 compatibility doe

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-02 Thread Sean Dague
On 02/02/2015 10:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 07:44:24AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote: >>> I'm with Daniel on that one. We shouldn't "deprecate" until we are 100% >>> sure that the replacement is up to the task and that strategy is solid. >> >> My problem with this is: If th

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 07:44:24AM -0800, Dan Smith wrote: > > I'm with Daniel on that one. We shouldn't "deprecate" until we are 100% > > sure that the replacement is up to the task and that strategy is solid. > > My problem with this is: If there wasn't a stackforge project, what > would we do?

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Smith
> I'm with Daniel on that one. We shouldn't "deprecate" until we are 100% > sure that the replacement is up to the task and that strategy is solid. My problem with this is: If there wasn't a stackforge project, what would we do? Nova's in-tree EC2 support has been rotting for years now, and despit

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-02 Thread Thierry Carrez
Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:38:44PM -0600, Matt Riedemann wrote: >> Deprecation isn't a one-way street really, nova-network was deprecated for a >> couple of releases and then undeprecated and opened up again for feature >> development (at least for a short while until t

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-02-02 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 04:38:44PM -0600, Matt Riedemann wrote: > > > On 1/30/2015 3:16 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: > >As I've said a couple of times in the past, I think the > >architecturally sound approach is to keep this inside Nova. > > > >The two main reasons are: > > * Having multiple fronten

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-31 Thread M Ranga Swami Reddy
I could see the real issue here is the maintainers for EC2 API code. If this is the case - create a sub-group with core members in it, who will be responsible to maintain this code like other projects. On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 2:54 PM, Alexandre Levine wrote: > Matt, > > Ideally (when we remove al

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-31 Thread Alexandre Levine
Matt, Ideally (when we remove all the workarounds), the code should be dependent only on public APIs and oslo, but for the first few releases when some additional functionality is exposed in Nova for us to remove workarounds we might be dependent on particular releases - or if it's done via e

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-30 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 1/30/2015 3:16 PM, Soren Hansen wrote: As I've said a couple of times in the past, I think the architecturally sound approach is to keep this inside Nova. The two main reasons are: * Having multiple frontend API's keeps us honest in terms of separation between the different layers in Nova

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-30 Thread Matt Riedemann
On 1/29/2015 5:52 AM, Alexandre Levine wrote: Thomas, I'm the lead of the team working on it. The project is in a release-candidate state and the EC2 (non-VPC) part is just being finished, so there are no tags or branches yet. Also we were not sure about what should we do with it since we were

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-30 Thread Soren Hansen
As I've said a couple of times in the past, I think the architecturally sound approach is to keep this inside Nova. The two main reasons are: * Having multiple frontend API's keeps us honest in terms of separation between the different layers in Nova. * Having the EC2 API inside Nova ensures the

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-29 Thread Alexandre Levine
Thomas, I'm the lead of the team working on it. The project is in a release-candidate state and the EC2 (non-VPC) part is just being finished, so there are no tags or branches yet. Also we were not sure about what should we do with it since we were told that it'll have a chance of going as a p

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/28/2015 08:56 PM, Sean Dague wrote: > There is a new stackforge project which is getting some activity now - > https://github.com/stackforge/ec2-api. The intent and hope is that is > the path forward for the portion of the community that wants this > feature, and that efforts will be focused

Re: [openstack-dev] Deprecation of in tree EC2 API in Nova for Kilo release

2015-01-28 Thread Joe Gordon
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Sean Dague wrote: > The following review for Kilo deprecates the EC2 API in Nova - > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/150929/ > > There are a number of reasons for this. The EC2 API has been slowly > rotting in the Nova tree, never was highly tested, implements a