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
