On 07/24/2013 11:57 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: > > > On 07/24/2013 08:51 AM, Stefano Maffulli wrote: >> Hello >> >> I have seen lots of discussions on blogs and twitter heating up around >> Amazon API compatibility and OpenStack. This seems like a recurring >> topic, often raised by pundits and recently joined by members of the >> community. I think it's time to bring the discussions inside our >> community to our established channels and processes. Our community has >> established ways to discuss and take technical decisions, from the more >> accessible General mailing list to the Development list to the Design >> Summits, the weekly project meetings, the reviews on gerrit and the >> governing bodies Technical Committee and Board of Directors. >> >> While we have not seen a large push in the community recently via >> contributions or deployments, Amazon APIs have been an option for >> deployments from the early days of OpenStack. >> >> I would like to have this discussion inside the established channels of >> our community and get the opinions from those that maintain that >> OpenStack should increase efforts for Amazon APIs compatibility, and >> ultimately it would be good to see code contributions. >> >> Do you think OpenStack should have an ongoing effort to imitate Amazon's >> API? If you think it should, how would you lead the effort? > > I don't care about Amazon's APIs at all, except in as much as > compatibility shims might help people migrate off of a closed system and > on to an open one.
I feel about the same way, but I think this reason is enough to have and continue maintaining support for these APIs. As Stefano said, at least in nova we haven't seen a whole *lot* of work on the EC2 API support lately. However, I don't see it going away in the foreseeable future and would certainly welcome more contributions in this area. -- Russell Bryant _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
