Given the inconsistency between the user survey and the apparent utilization/maintenance, I’d recommend checking on the openstack-operators list to see if this would be a major issue.
Tim On 08/07/16 13:54, "Amrith Kumar" <amr...@tesora.com> wrote: Did not realize that; I withdraw my request. You are correct; 12 months+ is fair warning. -amrith P.S. I volunteered (in Ann Arbor) to work with you and contribute to nova-docker but I guess that's now moot; it'd have been fun :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Davanum Srinivas [mailto:dava...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 7:32 AM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][nova-docker] Retiring nova-docker > project > > Amrith, > > A year and few months is sufficient notice: > http://markmail.org/message/geijiljch4yxfcvq > > I really really want this to go away. Every time this comes up, > example it came up in Austin too, a few people raise their hands and > then do not show up. (Not saying you will do the same!). > > -- Dims > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Amrith Kumar <amr...@tesora.com> wrote: > > Does it make sense that this conversation about the merits of nova- > docker be had before the retirement is actually initiated. It seems odd > that in the face of empirical evidence of actual use (user survey) we > merely hypothesize that people are likely using their own forks and > therefore it is fine to retire this project. > > > > As ttx indicates there is nothing wrong with a project with low > activity. That said, if the issue is that nova-docker is not actively > maintained and broken, then what it needs is contributors not retirement. > > > > -amrith > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] > >> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 5:03 AM > >> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > >> <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > >> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][nova-docker] Retiring nova-docker > >> project > >> > >> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:11:59AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > >> > Matt Riedemann wrote: > >> > > [...] > >> > > Expand the numbers to 6 months and you'll see only 13 commits. > >> > > > >> > > It's surprisingly high in the user survey (page 39): > >> > > > >> > > https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey- > >> Report.pdf > >> > > > >> > > So I suspect most users/deployments are just running their own > forks. > >> > > >> > Why ? Is it completely unusable as it stands ? 13 commits in 6 months > >> sounds > >> > like enough activity to keep something usable (if it was usable in > the > >> first > >> > place). We have a lot of (official) projects and libraries with less > >> > activity than that :) > >> > > >> > I'm not sure we should be retiring an unofficial project if it's > usable, > >> > doesn't have critical security issues and is used by a number of > >> people... > >> > Now, if it's unusable and abandoned, that's another story. > >> > >> Nova explicitly provides *zero* stable APIs for out of tree drivers to > >> use. Changes to Nova internals will reliably break out of tree drivers > >> at least once during a development cycle, often more. So you really do > >> need someone committed to updating out of tree drivers to cope with the > >> fact that they're using an explicitly unstable API. We actively intend > >> to keep breaking out of tree drivers as often as suits Nova's best > >> interests. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Daniel > >> -- > >> |: http://berrange.com -o- > http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ > >> :| > >> |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt- > manager.org > >> :| > >> |: http://autobuild.org -o- > http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > >> :| > >> |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk- > vnc > >> :| > >> > >> > __________________________________________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims > > __________________________________________________________________________ > 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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________________________________________ 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