Thanks for the clarification Kyle. On 2 May 2016 at 14:33, Kyle Mestery <mest...@mestery.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Matt Jarvis > <matt.jar...@datacentred.co.uk> wrote: > > As some of you on this list may already know, there are issues in the > > Neutron team with development resources on VPNaas and FWaaS, and there > have > > been discussions in Austin about deprecating the code from the main > Neutron > > codebase. The decision is currently that the code will remain for > another 6 > > months, after which time if no dev resource has emerged, then they will > be > > deprecated. > > > To be clear here, these will remain in-tree for the next 6 months. > Removal (not deprecation) would happen if no progress has been made on > actually getting contributors for these projects. The code would live > on, they would just be removed from the governance repository meaning > they would not be Neutron's anymore. > > > I know there are operators relying on these functions, particularly in > the > > public cloud space in Europe, so this would impact those people. I also > know > > this list doesn't necessarily reach all of them either, so I will try and > > reach out by other means as well, but it would be very useful to try and > get > > a clearer picture of how many people are using VPNaaS and FWaaS. If you > are, > > could you please respond to this thread ? > > > I'm actually really surprised that people are *using* FWaaS. It's been > marked experimental for over 3 years now, and it only recently in > Liberty received work which made it somewhat useful, which was the > ability to apply a firewall on a specific Neutron router rather than > all tenant routers. FWaaS in production sounds pretty risky to me, but > I supposed that our fault for not being clear on it's readiness. > > > If we have metrics that a constituent part of the user community need > these > > functions, then we can try and find a way to help the Neutron team to > cover > > the resourcing gaps. > > > If people are using these, IMHO that's another reason to keep them > around. I've already said that we have at least one large user of VPN, > so that project will continue to be worked on even if it's removed > from Neutron. > > Thanks, > Kyle > > > Matt > > > > DataCentred Limited registered in England and Wales no. 05611763 > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenStack-operators mailing list > > OpenStack-operators@lists.openstack.org > > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > > -- DataCentred Limited registered in England and Wales no. 05611763
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