Hi Chris, Your contribution would be much appreciated!
I believe addresses, load balancers and firewalls are implemented by at least the ec2 and fgcp drivers. I assume you're more familiar with the related ec2 APIs so my suggestion would be to look at the ec2 driver's code[1] and copy [2] and modify it to work with openstack's API. Once you have it working, or are stuck and want us to have a look at your code, you can send us your changes for review [3]. I usually grep all drivers to learn different strategies of implementing a collection when I work on adding one to a driver. > It appears that Deltacloud traffic is really dropping off based on the > number of messages per month to the mailing list. Am I looking at the > wrong list, catching the community at a bad time, or is the project losing > that much in terms of people's available time? This is the right mailing list. There are a few reasons for the recent decline compared to the six months before that. Chronologically: Aug/Sep last year the DMTF's CIMI API specification was released and we've been working hard on Deltacloud's CIMI front-end to implement this specification. Red Hat and Fujitsu participated in the CIMI interoperability testing events in Dec [4] and April, so lots of development and discussions towards those events. Although we're currently working towards the next CIMI testing event in July, most of the coding has been done so not much discussion on the mailing list required. The spike in February was probably because of the network API that was added to the Deltacloud API. A lot of people were involved in that to ensure the common API would cover all cloud providers. On top of the completion of the above, in May there were two developments that caused a further drop in e-mails: We used to send our patches to the mailing list for review but since May most of us are using github PRs so patches and review comments don't go to the mailing list anymore. Finally, Red Hat has had a number of developers working fulltime on Deltacloud for a number of years and now that Deltacloud has reached maturity it decided to scale back its sponsorship [5], so they're working on it part-time now. [1] https://github.com/deltacloud/deltacloud-core/blob/master/server/lib/del tacloud/drivers/ec2/ec2_driver.rb#L768 [2] http://deltacloud.apache.org/getting-sources.html [3] http://deltacloud.apache.org/how-to-contribute.html [4] http://www.dmtf.org/content/dmtf-hold-plugfest-cloud-infrastructure-mana gement-interface-cimi [5] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/deltacloud-dev/201305.mbox/%3C5 [email protected]%3E Regards, Dies Koper > -----Original Message----- > From: Tooley, Christopher Tooley (STL) - contr > [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, 15 June 2013 5:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Networking Components for Deltacloud OpenStack Driver > > Our ideal solution to our cloud platform has become to use Deltacloud > to front-end our virtualization platforms. One of those platforms we will > be relying heavily on is OpenStack. I see that Deltacloud will make API > calls to EC2 for Load Balancers, IP Addresses and Firewalls. All of those > things seem to be supported in OpenStack's Quantum API so I was hoping > to avoid writing directly to OpenStack when Deltacloud supports it. > > Is there any work being done to move that forward? If so, where? If not, > any pointers on where to start would help. > > It appears that Deltacloud traffic is really dropping off based on the > number of messages per month to the mailing list. Am I looking at the > wrong list, catching the community at a bad time, or is the project losing > that much in terms of people's available time? > > I'm hoping that soon I'll be able to contribute if that is seen as a > valuable thing. > > Chris Tooley
