On Apr 13, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Grig Gheorghiu wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Tom Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Apr 13, 2011, at 12:29 AM, Roman Bogorodskiy <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Updates on load balancing support. What do I have now:
>>> 
>>> * Functional GoGrid and Rackspace drivers
>>> * Unit-tests for basic features
>>> 
>>> Code is on github (as I mentioned before):
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/novel/libcloud/compare/balancers
>>> 
>>> It needs some more love for sure, but generally it's ready to hit main
>>> repository, in my opinion.
>>> 
>>> The only concern I have there is when we are going to ship 0.5.0? If
>>> we're going to ship it really soonish, I'd rather wait for it to ship
>>> and commit balancers stuff thereafter.
>>> 
>>> I think I will need about 2 or maybe 3 weeks to polish and test the
>>> code.
>>> 
>>> Also, Paul had some concerns about 'lb' not being top-level module
>>> (libcloud.resource.lb as opposed to libcloud.lb). Any more thoughts on
>>> that?
>> 
>> I agree with Paul—something that only supports a couple providers probably 
>> shouldn't be a top-level module. Also, I don't understand why it's called 
>> "lb"; it's completely non-descriptive and not even a common acronym.
> 
> LB is actually a very common acronym in systems administration.

+1, and although I have yet to grok the new module layout, perhaps we can throw 
it into something like libcloud.networking.lb?

Yet, I am having a difficult time thinking of non-load balancer networking 
components currently available.

Cheers,
Jerry

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