Jay,
> At this time, Neutron is the only project that has done any splitting out > of driver and advanced services repos. Other projects have discussed doing > this, but, at least in Nova, that discussion was put on hold for the time > being. Last I remember, we agreed that we would clean up, stabilize and > document the virt driver API in Nova before any splitting of driver repos > would be feasible. Imho not only Neutron has this. ;) Rally support out of tree plugins as well and I saw already some third party repos: https://github.com/stackforge/haos Best regards, Boris Pavlovic On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:08 PM, John Garbutt <j...@johngarbutt.com> wrote: > On 3 June 2015 at 13:39, Jay Pipes <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 06/03/2015 08:25 AM, Zhipeng Huang wrote: > >> > >> Hi All, > >> > >> As I understand, Neutron by far has the clearest big tent mode via its > >> in-tree/out-of-tree decomposition, thanks to Kyle and other Neutron team > >> members effort. > >> > >> So my question is, is it the same for the other projects? For example, > >> does Nova also have the project-level Big Tent Mode Neutron has? > > > > > > Hi Zhipeng, > > > > At this time, Neutron is the only project that has done any splitting > out of > > driver and advanced services repos. Other projects have discussed doing > > this, but, at least in Nova, that discussion was put on hold for the time > > being. Last I remember, we agreed that we would clean up, stabilize and > > document the virt driver API in Nova before any splitting of driver repos > > would be feasible. > > +1 to jay's comment. > > I see Nova's mission as providing a solid interoperable API experience > to on-demand compute resources. Right now, thats happening best by > keeping things in tree, but we are doing work to make other options > possible. > > I actually see the existence of projects such as Cinder, Heat and > Magnum as success stories born out of Nova saying no to expanding our > scope (and in the case of Cinder, actively trying to reduce our > scope). I hope more of both of those things will happen in the future. > > If we had accepted these efforts into Nova, they would not have had > the freedom they get by living inside OpenStack, but outside of > Compute. Something the big tent makes much easier to deal with. I > don't think they would have gained much by being inside the compute > project, mostly because we are all crazy busy looking after Nova. > > Thanks, > John > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 >
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