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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 2:33 PM, anthony shaw <[email protected]>
wrote:

> That makes sense..
>
> I completed the first PR anyway, #564 and the code refactoring to a common
> connection class and model classes is coming in the second PR.
>

Sounds good.


> Networking driver looks like a good start, whether people are wanting to
> leverage ACLs, security groups and other items from the neutron extensions
> APIs would be a thought.
>
> Does anyone know who the biggest users of this library are? I'm aware of
> mist.io and some other dev shops using it. I know python-novaclient is
> popular for purely OS/Nova and jclouds for people like abiquo.
>

Some other users besides mist.io include DivvyCloud, SixSq and CloudControl
(they use it inside their products to talk to different cloud providers).
More complete list can be found at
https://libcloud.apache.org/whois-using.html.

Besides companies listed on this page, many other companies also use it
internally to provision and manage their cloud resources.


> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Tomaz Muraus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Replies are in-line.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 1:19 PM, anthony shaw <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hey
> > > Just a couple of quick ones, I'm working on a few features for the
> > > dimension data driver namely support for a loadbalancing driver and
> > > extending the compute to support more functions and the newer API.
> > >
> >
> >
> > > 1. I understand the branching requirements are referencing a Jira
> ticket.
> > > Do you create a ticket per feature and a feature branch? I've gone down
> > > that path with 736 and LIBCLOUD-7372.
> >
> >
> > Yes, we follow "feature branch" approach. In your case it would be ideal
> to
> > submit two PRs - one for new loadbalancing driver and one for compute
> > driver improvements.
> >
> > In case those features are related and share a lot of code (e.g. you are
> > going to refactor some shared code in a common module), then it's OK to
> > just open a single PR.
> >
> >
> > > Unit tests. The existing tests were mock http results, which I've
> > extended
> > > coverage for. Do any of the other drivers utilise a real http request?
> > What
> > > is the expected level of coverage on the driver?
> > >
> >
> > None of the drivers right now use real HTTP requests since testing
> against
> > a real provider API is quite hard (especially emulating all the edge
> cases,
> > etc.).
> >
> > As far as the expected coverage level goes - we have a no fixed number
> > requirement, but the more the better :)
> >
> >
> > > 3. What is the plan for a networking driver? Along the lines of the
> > > openstack systems
> > >
> >
> > I started to work on this in the past (
> > https://github.com/apache/libcloud/pull/345), but sadly I didn't have
> the
> > time to finish it.
> >
> > It would be great if someone could pick it up.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Ant
> > > Sent from Outlook
> >
>

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