On 01/25/2017 08:16 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: > On 01/24/2017 06:42 PM, Sukhdev Kapur wrote: >> >> Ihar and Kevin, >> >> As our potential future PTLs, I would like to draw your attention to one >> of the critical issue regarding Neutron as "the" networking service in >> OpenStack. >> >> I keep hearing off and on that Neutron is not flexible to address many >> networking use cases and hence a new (or additional) networking project >> is needed. For example, to address the use cases around NFV (rigid >> resource inter-dependencies). Another one keeps popping up is that it >> is very hard/difficult to add/enhance Neutron API - hence, I picked this >> one goal called out in Ihar's candidacy. > > Adding an additional networking project to try to solve this will only > make things work. We need one API. If it needs to grow features, it > needs to grow features - but they should be features that all of > OpenStack users get.
WORSE - will make things WORSE - not work. Sorry for potentially completely misleading typo. >> I would really like us to discuss this issue head-on and see what is >> missing in Neutron APIs and what would take to make them extensible so >> that vendors do not run around trying to figure out alternative >> solutions.... > > +100 > >> cheers.. >> -Sukhdev >> >> >> >> >> * Explore alternative ways to evolve Neutron API. Piling up >> extensions and allowing third parties to completely change core >> resource behaviour is not ideal, and now that api-ref and API >> consolidation effort in neutron-lib are closer to completion, we may >> have better answers to outstanding questions than during previous >> attempts to crack the nut. I would like to restart the discussion some >> time during Pike. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Thanks for attention, >> Ihar >> >> >> __________________________________________________________________________ >> OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) >> Unsubscribe: >> openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe >> <http://openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe> >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> <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 > __________________________________________________________________________ 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