Hello,

   First of all, let me apologize for answering on Alex Levine's behalf, but 
it's late night/early morning in Moscow, so I'm taking the liberty.

   Second, Alex Levine was recently made PTL of the EC2-API project when it was 
formally accepted as an official project, but failed to understand that he 
would need to nominate himself again during the election process, since there 
was such a short gap.

   Third, as Tim points out, there is still significant usage of the EC2 APIs 
in OpenStack.  In fact, usage has been increasing.  We have also begun to see 
greater participation in the development process.

   Finally, it is true that my team has not been as active on the APIs 
recently; however, there is a very good reason for that.  We are small and 
recently focused on working with the RefStack team on adding new capabilities 
to RefStack and new tests to Tempest to create a way to test for EC2 API 
interoperability and compatibility.  While this isn't work on the EC2 APIs 
themselves, it is adjacent and important for their uptake, usage, and 
evaluation, particularly by teams who want to integrate them into their 
products.

   My team is small, 5 people, but we're focused exclusively on OpenStack at 
EMC, and the EC2 APIs will continue to be a top 3 priority for us for the 
foreseeable future.

   Ideally what we would do is put Alex in as PTL for the EC2 APIs and give us 
some more time to make progress.  From our perspective, things in this area 
have actually been going swimmingly lately.


Best,


--Randy


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From: Tim Bell [tim.b...@cern.ch]
Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:26 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [tc][ec2-api] EC2 API Future

Doug,

Given that the EC2 functionality is currently in use by at least 1/6th of 
production clouds 
(https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/Public-User-Survey-Report.pdf page 
34), this is a worrying situation.

The EC2 functionality was recently deprecated from Nova on the grounds that the 
EC2 API project was the correct way to proceed. With the proposal now to not 
have an EC2 API project at all, this will leave many in the community confused.

Tim




On 20/03/16 17:48, "Doug Hellmann" <d...@doughellmann.com> wrote:

>...
>
>The EC2-API project doesn't appear to be very actively worked on.
>There is one very recent commit from an Oslo team member, another
>couple from a few days before, and then the next one is almost a
>month old. Given the lack of activity, if no team member has
>volunteered to be PTL I think we should remove the project from the
>official list for lack of interest.
>
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