Hey Russell, On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 16:26 -0400, Russell Bryant wrote: > Greetings, > > There was a thread on this list a little while ago about moving the > notification drivers that are in nova and glance into openstack.common > since they provide very similar functionality, but have implementations > that have diverged over time. Is anyone actively working on this? If > so, please let me know. > > For the message queue notifiers, nova uses nova.rpc to do the heavy > lifting. Glance has notifiers written against the messaging libs > directly. I think it makes sense to take the nova approach. This would > mean moving nova.rpc into openstack.common before the notifiers can get > moved. > > I have started looking at moving nova.rpc to openstack.common.rpc. My > plan is: > > 1) Write a series of patches that reduces coupling in nova.rpc on the > rest of nova. > > 2) Submit changes needed to support this decoupling to openstack.common. > > 3) Once nova.rpc is sufficiently decoupled, move it to openstack.common. > > While doing the above, I want to aim for the least amount of disruption > to the rpc interface as is practical.
That looks like a good plan. Have you got a rough idea already what needs to happen for (2) in openstack-common? Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp