Excerpts from Dan Smith's message of 2018-08-17 10:30:41 -0700: > > The subject of using placement in Cinder has come up, and since then I've > > had a > > few conversations with people in and outside of that team. I really think > > until > > placement is its own project outside of the nova team, there will be > > resistance > > from some to adopt it. > > I know politics will be involved in this, but this is a really terrible > reason to do a thing, IMHO. After the most recent meeting we had with > the Cinder people on placement adoption, I'm about as convinced as ever > that Cinder won't (and won't need to) _consume_ placement any time > soon. I hope it will _report_ to placement so Nova can make better > decisions, just like Neutron does now, but I think that's the extent > we're likely to see if we're honest. > > What other projects are _likely_ to _consume_ placement even if they > don't know they'd want to? What projects already want to use it but > refuse to because it has Nova smeared all over it? We talked about this > a lot in the early justification for placement, but the demand for that > hasn't really materialized, IMHO; maybe it's just me. > > > This reluctance on having it part of Nova may be real or just perceived, but > > with it within Nova it will likely be an uphill battle for some time > > convincing > > other projects that it is a nicely separated common service that they can > > use. > > Splitting it out to another repository within the compute umbrella (what > do we call it these days?) satisfies the _technical_ concern of not > being able to use placement without installing the rest of the nova code > and dependency tree. Artificially creating more "perceived" distance > sounds really political to me, so let's be sure we're upfront about the > reasoning for doing that if so :) > > --Dan >
If we ignore the political concerns in the short term, are there other projects actually interested in using placement? With what technical caveats? Perhaps with modifications of some sort to support the needs of those projects? Doug __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
