Re: [Openstack] Lazy import of modules

2011-01-14 Thread John Purrier
Another thought, as we envision moving OpenStack forward we will likely be including code and projects that are not written in Python. Being forward looking should we structure openstack-common to segment along language lines? John -Original Message- From:

Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network Infrastructure blueprint

2011-01-28 Thread John Purrier
Some clarification and a suggestion regarding Nova and the two new proposed services (Network/Volume). To be clear, Nova today contains both volume and network services. We can specify, attach, and manage block devices and also specify network related items, such as IP assignment and VLAN

Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network Infrastructure blueprint

2011-01-28 Thread John Purrier
=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:52 PM To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network Infrastructure blueprint John Purrier wrote: Here is the suggestion. It is clear from the response on the list

Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network Infrastructure blueprint

2011-01-28 Thread John Purrier
code for this milestone. John From: Andy Smith [mailto:andys...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:45 PM To: John Purrier Cc: Rick Clark; Jay Pipes; Ewan Mellor; Søren Hansen; openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network Infrastructure

Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network Infrastructure blueprint

2011-01-31 Thread John Purrier
. We will target the Diablo design summit to discuss and review the progress made on these services and determine if the best approach to the project has been made. Thoughts? John From: Andy Smith [mailto:andys...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 4:06 PM To: John Purrier Cc

Re: [Openstack] Cactus Release Preparation

2011-01-31 Thread John Purrier
I would suggest that the theme(s) for the Cactus release be: a. Deployability. This includes consistent packaging and deployment tools support; but also includes good consistent documentation, approachability to the project (how quickly can a novice get a running system going for proof of

Re: [Openstack] Pondering multi-tenant needs in nova.

2011-02-03 Thread John Purrier
I think Glen is on the right track here. Having the account_ID be a string with no connotation for Nova allows two benefits: 1) deployments can create the arbitrary organizational models that fit their particular DC, physical, and logical structures, and 2) the Nova code is simpler as the

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack Compute API 1.1

2011-02-14 Thread John Purrier
Bumping this to the top of the list. One of the key deliverables for Cactus is a complete and usable OpenStack Compute API. This means that using only the API and tools that interact with the OpenStack Compute API Nova can be installed and configured; once running all of the Nova features and

Re: [Openstack] Decoupling of Network and Compute services for the new Network Service design

2011-02-23 Thread John Purrier
I agree, this is exactly where we want to take the network services for OpenStack. The goal should be to decouple Compute from Network, with an eye toward a project separation post-Cactus (this should have a lot of discussion at the next design summit). For Cactus we have explicitly kept the

Re: [Openstack] Decoupling of Network and Compute services for the new Network Service design

2011-02-23 Thread John Purrier
And we are back to the discussion about orchestration... Given the flexibility of the OpenStack system and the goals of independently horizontally scaling services I think we will need to address this head on. #3 is the most difficult, but is also the right answer for the project as we look

Re: [Openstack] Novatools ...

2011-02-24 Thread John Purrier
@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jay Pipes Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 12:20 PM To: Eric Day Cc: Josh Kearney; so...@openstack.org; Andy Smith; openstack@lists.launchpad.net; John Purrier; Rick Clark Subject: Re: [Openstack

Re: [Openstack] Novatools ...

2011-02-24 Thread John Purrier
-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Devin Carlen Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2011 4:34 PM To: Jay Pipes Cc: Josh Kearney; so...@openstack.org; Andy Smith; openstack@lists.launchpad.net; John Purrier; Rick Clark

Re: [Openstack] Availability of RHEL build of Bexar release of OpenStack Nova

2011-02-25 Thread John Purrier
Good work folks! Do we understand what the dependencies/deltas are to support RHEL5 series releases? Has anybody done this? John -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack Compute API for Cactus (critical!)

2011-02-28 Thread John Purrier
for these services. We may also need to up-version these service API's between Cactus and Diablo as they are currently under heavy discussion and design. John From: Erik Carlin [mailto:erik.car...@rackspace.com] Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 3:16 PM To: John Purrier; openstack@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Openstack] Openstack API - Volumes?

2011-03-22 Thread John Purrier
I know that creiht is looking at this for Rackspace. Chuck, anything to add to this discussion? John -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Adam Johnson Sent: Monday,

Re: [Openstack] Federated Identity Management (bursting and zones)

2011-03-28 Thread John Purrier
Agree that this is a tricky technical issue, and I agree that the issue of management of Authn and Authz should be external to Nova and all other OpenStack components. I believe there are two fundamental problems to be solved and that we will confuse ourselves if we try to mix them together:

Re: [Openstack] Feature Freeze status

2011-03-28 Thread John Purrier
Hi Thierry, in addition to the technical sessions for Nova, Swift, and Glance at the design summit, I have asked Stephen to add Project and Release management. You will own the time slots, once the PTL's are on board we will discuss how best to schedule the sessions. Thanks, John -Original

Re: [Openstack] Feature Freeze status

2011-03-28 Thread John Purrier
The problem we've been having revolves around the fact that we have dozens of developers working on Nova, with no real guidance as to the long-term direction of the project, and teams just doing whatever the heck they want to, without ML discussion and blueprints, and then expecting people to

Re: [Openstack] Proposal for Justin Santa Barbara to join Nova-Core

2011-04-15 Thread John Purrier
Well deserved, Justin. You have been a great contributor to the project! John -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Justin Santa Barbara Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011

Re: [Openstack] Openstack Network service wiki and meeting

2011-05-03 Thread John Purrier
Rick, we have set up a top level LP project futurestack and moved all of the associated but not official projects to be children of this. Feel free to link the new network projects here if you want, it allows us to have a single LP spot to go to in order to see the activity on these projects.

Re: [Openstack] Swift PPA's

2011-05-07 Thread John Purrier
should probably wait to comment on that part until I get back in the office next week. Are things moving to github? If so, what all is staying on launchpad? Didn't John Purrier form a new integration team with Monty and others to maintain packaging

Re: [Openstack] [SPAM] Testing

2011-05-10 Thread John Purrier
Vish, this is good stuff. We should pick this up in glance and swift, either sharing a common effort with nova or specifying for each project the same documentation that Vish is suggesting. Heads up for other projects that are looking to be affiliated or incubated projects, it will save time

Re: [Openstack] GlusterFS project proposal online

2011-06-07 Thread John Purrier
On initial reading this is great stuff. As Josh McKenty pointed out you should relocate the wiki page and then create a blueprint so we can track the project. I will have some specific responses and a couple of questions after spending some time grokking the proposal. John (johnpur)

Re: [Openstack] Coalescing and Coordinating Continuous Integration, Developer Tools, Function and Smoke Testings Efforts

2011-06-07 Thread John Purrier
Monty, this is great stuff, glad to see significant movement on the CI/testing front. The OpenStack PPB has claimed the hour prior to the OpenStack weekly meeting, can you go 2 hours earlier? Thanks, John -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] [Glance] diablo-2 milestone is available

2011-07-01 Thread John Purrier
Nice work by all in hitting this milestone! johnpur On Jun 30, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org wrote: Hello everyone, Another four weeks, another milestone ! In the spirit of getting features out to the world as soon as possible, today sees the availability of the

Re: [Openstack] Creating openstack-dev mailing list

2011-10-06 Thread John Purrier
) John Dickinson (notmyname)(Rackspace)) Vish Ishaya (vishy)(Rackspace) Josh Kearney (jk0)(Rackspace) Joshua McKenty (jmckenty)(Piston) Ewan Mellor (ewanmellor)(Citrix) Jay Pipes (jaypipes)(Rackspace) John Purrier (johnpur)(HP) Monty Taylor (mordred)(Rackspace) Paul Voccio (pvo)(Rackspace) Ziad

Re: [Openstack] Limit flavors to specific hosts

2012-04-03 Thread John Purrier
+1. Interesting scenarios open up if we can have the scheduler intelligently direct workloads based on config/metadata. johnpur From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Vishvananda

Re: [Openstack] OpenStack 2012.1 (Essex) is RELEASED !

2012-04-05 Thread John Purrier
Congratulations to everyone in the OpenStack community for achieving this milestone! John -Original Message- From: openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez Sent: Thursday, April

[Openstack] OpenStack and VDI

2012-06-20 Thread John Purrier
Hi all, recently there was a post by Zdnet about some folks that are implementing VDI (virtual desktop) integrated with OpenStack. I would like to get in touch with the project, if anyone knows of or are part of the effort. Thanks, John John Purrier j...@openstack.com (206) 930-0788 http

Re: [Openstack] [swift] Operational knowledge sharing

2012-08-10 Thread John Purrier
This is great info, John. Thanks. John John Purrier j...@openstack.com (206) 930-0788 http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpur On 8/10/12 9:31 AM, John Dickinson m...@not.mn wrote: In a standard swift deployment, the proxy server is running behind a load balancer and/or an SSL terminator

Re: [Openstack] paas in openstack and forked cloudfoindry

2012-09-14 Thread John Purrier
an open PaaS over your OpenStack infrastructure will significantly help your developers and operational teams. John John Purrier Chief Technology Officer appfog.com http://www.appfog.com jpurr...@appfog.com j...@openstack.com About: johnpur http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnpur From: Frans Thamura fr

Re: [Openstack-poc] PPB Meeting

2011-03-24 Thread John Purrier
I am OK with whatever the group decides. John -Original Message- From: openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Ewan Mellor Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:01 AM To: Jonathan Bryce;

Re: [Openstack-poc] Meeting to discuss commonality

2011-05-09 Thread John Purrier
Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids... Wait, what channel am I on? -Original Message- From: openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Vishvananda Ishaya Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:21 AM

Re: [Openstack-poc] [SPAM] Project designations draft

2011-05-19 Thread John Purrier
I think there is still much fuzziness in the incubation description. What are the incubation assets? Define what some access to community resources means. etc. Also, and perhaps this is just a matter of timing, but how do we think of projects like Lunr, Quantum, Melange, Burrow, etc.?

Re: [Openstack-poc] Project designations draft

2011-05-19 Thread John Purrier
I would add this, it fleshes details on the core project definition. John -Original Message- From: openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011

Re: [Openstack-poc] github

2011-06-07 Thread John Purrier
Guys, I suggest we turn down the heat and rhetoric on this. We all are working to make OpenStack great, and need to work through our internal issues/disagreements in concise and professional manners. Prior to anyone doing anything regarding projects moving to GitHub, let's get a plan on the

Re: [Openstack-poc] Meeting tomorrow

2011-06-13 Thread John Purrier
@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Thierry Carrez Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:48 PM To: openstack-poc@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack-poc] Meeting tomorrow John Purrier wrote: Does it make sense to discuss the state/progress on the GitHub migration project? I think someone needs to set some

Re: [Openstack-poc] Meeting tomorrow

2011-06-14 Thread John Purrier
an agreed to position as to what is within the OpenStack charter and what is clearly not. John From: Joshua McKenty [mailto:j...@piston.cc] Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 5:08 AM To: Jay Pipes Cc: John Purrier; openstack-poc@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack-poc] Meeting tomorrow I

Re: [Openstack-poc] Meeting tomorrow

2011-10-04 Thread John Purrier
OK. -Original Message- From: openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net [mailto:openstack-poc-bounces+john=openstack@lists.launchpad.net] On Behalf Of Jonathan Bryce Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 1:38 PM To: openstack-poc@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Openstack-poc]