Re: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for instances?

2012-08-13 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Still" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net, openstack-operat...@lists.openstack.org > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:12:22 AM > Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] How common is user_data for instances? > > Greetings. > > I'm seeking information about h

Re: [Openstack] [nova] Proposal to add Yun Mao to nova-core

2012-07-19 Thread Dan Prince
+1. Nice work Yun. - Original Message - > From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" > To: "Openstack (openstack@lists.launchpad.net) > (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)" > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:10:41 PM > Subject: [Openstack] [nova] Proposal to add Yun Mao to nova-core > > Hello Everyone! >

Re: [Openstack] [nova] Proposal to add Michael Still to nova-core

2012-07-19 Thread Dan Prince
+1. Nice work Michael! - Original Message - > From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" > To: "Openstack (openstack@lists.launchpad.net) > (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)" > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:13:54 PM > Subject: [Openstack] [nova] Proposal to add Michael Still to nova-core > > Hello Ev

Re: [Openstack] [nova] Proposal to add Padraig Brady to nova-core

2012-07-19 Thread Dan Prince
+1 Excellent reviews and contributions as well! - Original Message - > From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" > To: "Openstack (openstack@lists.launchpad.net) > (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)" > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 7:09:14 PM > Subject: [Openstack] [nova] Proposal to add Padraig Brady t

Re: [Openstack] Glance/Swift tenant specific storage

2012-07-13 Thread Dan Prince
ssage - > From: "Dan Prince" > To: "OpenStack Mailing List" > Sent: Sunday, July 8, 2012 9:59:54 PM > Subject: Glance/Swift tenant specific storage > > I started working on the Glance swift-tenant-specific-storage > blueprint last week. > >

Re: [Openstack] PEP8 checks

2012-07-09 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Dave Walker" > To: "Monty Taylor" > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net, "John Garbutt" > Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 6:01:19 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] PEP8 checks > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 08:28:04AM -0400, Monty Taylor wrote: > > > > > > On 07/02/2

Re: [Openstack] Glance/Swift tenant specific storage

2012-07-09 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "David Kranz" > To: "Dan Prince" > Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 9:15:00 AM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Glance/Swift tenant specific storage > > Dan, I am involved in a project (not Glance) that is doing something >

[Openstack] Glance/Swift tenant specific storage

2012-07-08 Thread Dan Prince
I started working on the Glance swift-tenant-specific-storage blueprint last week. I've got a working branch in play here: https://github.com/dprince/glance/commits/swift_multi_tenant3 Some details on how I've done things so far: * Update Glance so that it uses the service catalog for each

Re: [Openstack] best practices for merging common into specific projects

2012-07-03 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Russell Bryant" > To: andrewbog...@gmail.com > Cc: "Andrew Bogott" , openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 3:26:56 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] best practices for merging common into specific > projects > > On 07/02/2012 03:16 PM

Re: [Openstack] Jenkins vs SmokeStack tests & Gerrit merge blockers

2012-06-28 Thread Dan Prince
be a blocker for the merge of the commit by Gerrit or > > Jenkins or any of the reviewers ? > > > > 2. Why did SmokeStack not get re-triggered for the later patch > > set revisions, before it was merged ? > > The answer to 1 and 2 is largely the same - SmokeStack

Re: [Openstack] AttributeError: "virDomain instance has no attribute 'reset'"

2012-06-25 Thread Dan Prince
I went ahead and implemented the fix here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/8943/1/nova/virt/libvirt/connection.py Once we do this the version requirement should be back at 0.9.6 (I think). Dan - Original Message - > From: "Jay Pipes" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Friday,

Re: [Openstack] Intermittent devstack-gate failures

2012-06-14 Thread Dan Prince
Hey Jim, Any updates or new ideas on the cause of the intermittent hangs? I mentioned these on IRC with regards to one of the Essex failures one thing I've seen with Glance recently is that both the glance-api and glance-registry now use (and try to auto create) the database by default. I'v

Re: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity

2012-06-14 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Brian Waldon" > To: "openstack@lists.launchpad.net (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)" > > Sent: Friday, June 8, 2012 5:50:45 PM > Subject: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity > > tl;dr - Should we compare roles as case-sensitive or > case-ins

Re: [Openstack] The right way to deprecate things in nova?

2012-06-13 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Sean Dague" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 3:07:54 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] The right way to deprecate things in nova? > > On 06/13/2012 01:35 PM, Mark Washenberger wrote: > > >> So up until this point OpenStack h

Re: [Openstack] [Swift] swift.common.client and swift CLI has moved to its own project python-swiftclient

2012-06-13 Thread Dan Prince
Okay. It looks like Swift also still depends on swiftclient. Long term it would be nice if we could build and unit test swift without relying on the swiftclient package. Could we: 1) Move any binaries that require swiftclient into the python-swiftclient project. 2) Move swift function tests

Re: [Openstack] Intermittent devstack-gate failures

2012-06-12 Thread Dan Prince
Hey Jim, I actually turned off SmokeStack earlier today for potentially the same reason. I was out for a couple days last week and haven't quite put my finger on all the things that are wrong. I'm seeing about half of the functional test runs fail. This issue seems to be the cause of most of m

Re: [Openstack] The right way to deprecate things in nova?

2012-06-12 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Sean Dague" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 3:50:45 PM > Subject: [Openstack] The right way to deprecate things in nova? > > I'm in the process of deprecating the old way that we do virt drivers > so > that it's fully dyna

Re: [Openstack] nova.projects table problems

2012-06-01 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Still" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:03:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] nova.projects table problems > > On 01/06/12 09:54, Michael Still wrote: > > Has anyone else experienced something like this? Its happene

Re: [Openstack] [Nova] Removal of Deprecated Auth

2012-05-14 Thread Dan Prince
the API won't be able to use > the deprecated auth strategy, but you can still use the nova-manage > commands - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/7215/ > 2) Remove nova-manage commands. The data won't have been migrated out > yet, but you won't have any interface to it t

[Openstack] SmokeStack: xenserver tests offline :(

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Prince
Several people asked me on IRC about SmokeStack being down. I'm having some issues with the image snapshot I used to spin up server groups for XenServer testing... so until I get a couple hours to go have a look at either creating a new snapshot or fixing the existing snapshot the XenServer Smo

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-05-03 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "John Garbutt" > To: "Dan Prince" , "Vishvananda Ishaya" > > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:56:44 AM > Subject: RE: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > I

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-05-02 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" > To: "Dan Prince" > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2012 4:14:25 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > +1. Might be nice to have

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-30 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Johannes Erdfelt" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 12:13:47 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012, Dan Prince wrote: > > > Mirations don&#

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-30 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Monsyne Dragon" > To: "Dan Prince" > Cc: "Sean Dague" , > "" > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 1:46:03 PM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > Even better, what would it

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-27 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Johannes Erdfelt" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:20:38 AM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012, Dan Prince wrote: > > The OpenStack Essex

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-27 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Sean Dague" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 10:21:17 AM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > On 04/26/2012 03:24 PM, Dan Prince wrote: > > > I think this scheme

[Openstack] proposal for Russell Bryant to be added to Nova Core

2012-04-27 Thread Dan Prince
Russell Bryant wrote the Nova Qpid rpc implementation and is a member of the Nova security team. He has been helping chipping away at reviews and contributing to discussions for some time now. I'd like to seem him Nova core so he can help out w/ reviews... definitely the RPC ones. Dan ___

Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-27 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Eoghan Glynn" > To: "Dan Prince" > Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 5:45:27 AM > Subject: Re: [Openstack] database migration cleanup > > > > > https://review.openstack.o

[Openstack] database migration cleanup

2012-04-26 Thread Dan Prince
The OpenStack Essex release had 82 database migrations. As these grow in number it seems reasonable to clean house from time to time. Now seems as good a time as any. I came up with a first go at it here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/6847/ The idea is that we would: * Do this early in th

Re: [Openstack] Gerrit minimum review time frame

2012-03-13 Thread Dan Prince
- Original Message - > From: "Joe Gordon" > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 5:59:02 PM > Subject: [Openstack] Gerrit minimum review time frame > > Hi All, > > I have noticed that some Gerrit branches get approved very quickly, > sometimes in a matter o

[Openstack] SmokeStack update

2012-02-23 Thread Dan Prince
This week, we switched Smokestack over to use a Fedora/puppet configuration that Derek Higgins and I have been working on. You can see those results in gerrit now. It seems very stable and supports running Nova smoke tests and Torpedo. We plan on focussing our trunk chasing on Fedora/puppet/lib

Re: [Openstack] [CHEF] Aligning Cookbook Efforts

2012-02-08 Thread Dan Prince
lved would be great. > > Thoughts and criticism most welcome, and apologies in advance if I got any > of the above history wrong. Feel free to correct me! > > Best, > -jay > One final note: We are looking at adding dual support for Fedora/puppet and Ubuntu/chef to Smo

Re: [Openstack] Libvirt File Injection

2012-01-30 Thread Dan Prince
e merge prop: > https://review.openstack.org/#change,3526 > > > Brian Waldon > > > ___ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~

Re: [Openstack] Integration test gating on trunk

2012-01-10 Thread Dan Prince
This would allow us to coordinate making these types of changes? Dan -Original Message- From: "James E. Blair" Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 12:09pm To: "OpenStack Mailing List" Subject: Re: [Openstack] Integration test gating on trunk "Dan Prince"

Re: [Openstack] Integration test gating on trunk

2012-01-04 Thread Dan Prince
Hi Jim, A couple of questions for you: 1) You mentioned how to coordinate changes between glance and nova but what about devstack. Does that same process apply to devstack as well? For example if there were a configuration file change (api-paste changes often and can cause failures) would

Re: [Openstack] unit and integration tests results for Gerrit

2011-12-13 Thread Dan Prince
dd an explicit cleanup for /tmp/glance-tests to make sure we have a clean slate for each test run. Dan -Original Message- From: "Jay Pipes" Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 7:14am To: "Dan Prince" Cc: "Openstack" Subject: Re: [Openstack] unit and integration te

[Openstack] unit and integration tests results for Gerrit

2011-12-12 Thread Dan Prince
Hello all, We just turned on a [https://github.com/dprince/bellows] Bellows feature that will automatically update Gerrit reviews with SmokeStack test results. Each Gerrit review should have a comment that looks something like this: SmokeStack Results (patch set 2): Unit Success: http://smo

Re: [Openstack] Proposal for Mark McLoughlin to join nova-core

2011-11-29 Thread Dan Prince
+1 -Original Message- From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 1:05pm To: "openstack (openstack@lists.launchpad.net)" Subject: [Openstack] Proposal for Mark McLoughlin to join nova-core Mark is maintaining openstack for Fedora and has made some excellent contribu

Re: [Openstack] A possible alternative to Gerrit ...

2011-09-01 Thread Dan Prince
++ The closer we can get to really using GitHub the better. Dan -Original Message- From: "Sandy Walsh" Sent: Thursday, September 1, 2011 1:56pm To: "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" Subject: [Openstack] A possible alternative to Gerrit ... Hey! Last night I did some hacking on Hu

Re: [Openstack] Automated Test Suite for OpenStack

2011-08-30 Thread Dan Prince
I Kiran, If you are interested in functionally testing the various openstack API's you might check out the following: https://github.com/rackspace-titan/stacktester (v1.1 OSAPI tests written in Python) https://github.com/dprince/openstack_vpc/tree/master/tests/ruby (v1.0 OSAPI tests usin

[Openstack] jenkins: nova-tarmac hangs

2011-08-19 Thread Dan Prince
The nova-tarmac jobs gets hung quite often lately. I know a lot of fingers have been pointing at Launchpad issues but I'm not sure that is the case here. When its hung the console output of the job is almost always at:   Running test command: /home/jenkins/openstack-ci/test_nova.sh   This is ess

Re: [Openstack] Status of Git/Gerrit Code Hosting/Review

2011-08-09 Thread Dan Prince
committed code) what they prefer? Dan -Original Message- From: "Monty Taylor" Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:29pm To: "Jay Pipes" Cc: "Dan Prince" , openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Openstack] Status of Git/Gerrit Code Hosting/Review >> L

Re: [Openstack] Status of Git/Gerrit Code Hosting/Review

2011-08-09 Thread Dan Prince
iendly. In Launchpad we typically had people naming their branches w/ either a feature/fix name or the ticket number. So in Launchpad my branch would be called something like 'lp:~dan-prince/fix_ec2_metadata' or whatever. In Gerrit the branch names up for review are rather cryptic &#

Re: [Openstack] Overview of CI/Testing

2011-06-07 Thread Dan Prince
lor" Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2011 12:30pm To: "openstack@lists.launchpad.net" Cc: "Dan Prince" , "Mihai Ibanescu" , "Peter J. Pouliot" Subject: Overview of CI/Testing Hey everybody, Here's a quick write up on what we have at the moment and what

[Openstack] SQLAlchemy migration number conflicts

2011-06-01 Thread Dan Prince
We are getting lots of conflicts with migration numbers in merge props. What are thoughts on using date time stamps (UTC format) instead of sequential numbering? So instead of: 021_rename_image_ids.py We'd use: 20110402122512_rename_image_ids.py (or something similar). Rails projects now use

Re: [Openstack] Proposal for Brian Lamar to join Nova-Core

2011-05-31 Thread Dan Prince
+1 Brian is a rock solid python developer. Dan -Original Message- From: "Vishvananda Ishaya" Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 3:16pm To: "Openstack" Subject: [Openstack] Proposal for Brian Lamar to join Nova-Core While I was checking branch merges, I noticed that Brian Lamar (blamar), is n

Re: [Openstack] [NetStack] Quantum Service API extension proposal

2011-05-21 Thread Dan Prince
The v1.1 spec is still marked as beta, yes. The extensions code however was included in Cactus and is fully working. From the looks of your PDF you need a top level resource with several sub-resources. I think most of this should be supported with the existing ResourceExtension code. You might

Re: [Openstack] python-novaclient vs. python-openstack.compute

2011-05-18 Thread Dan Prince
Hey Sandy, So the API version works in the sense that if you hit /v1.0 you'll get the older v1.0 style API. Likewise for /v1.1. The big things still in flux as far as v1.1 support in nova: -making the JSON and XML serialization match the spec. On the JSON side there are some "collections" chan

[Openstack] glance PPA fix

2011-05-14 Thread Dan Prince
Soren/Monty, The most recent glance PPA packages fail due to the fact that glance trunk now uses separate files for glance-api.conf and glance-registry.conf. This merge prop should fix it: https://code.launchpad.net/~dan-prince/glance/ubuntu-glance-api-version/+merge/61001 Cheers, Dan

Re: [Openstack] Code Reviews

2011-05-11 Thread Dan Prince
+1 I just SmokeStack'ed a couple more suspiciously old branches and marked them needs fixing because they didn't merge w/ trunk. Most of which already had needs fixing for other reasons anyway. --- Also, I've been sitting on lp:~dan-prince/nova/chown_vdb_device for a month no

Re: [Openstack] euca-describe-images help?

2011-05-09 Thread Dan Prince
Hi Fred, The image format for the old S3 image service (local image store) changed a bit in Cactus. I believe there is a 'nova-manage image convert' command you can use to convert the old naming scheme to the Cactus image store format. Or like Todd pointed out below you can also manually do the

Re: [Openstack] Packaging branches

2011-05-06 Thread Dan Prince
me to build nova ubuntu packages on Maverick: lp:~dan-prince/nova/ubuntu-hunking-fixes lp:~dan-prince/nova/ubuntu-fix_installinit Thanks, Dan -Original Message- From: "Soren Hansen" Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2011 10:16am To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net Subject: [Openstack] Packag

[Openstack] SmokeStack accounts?

2011-04-30 Thread Dan Prince
Hello all, After a bit of rest I got a public SmokeStack setup here: http://184.106.189.251/ Trunk tests with libvirt ipv4 currently fail due to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/773412 -- Is there interest in making accounts available in SmokeStack this for any and all nova devs? It w

Re: [Openstack] Openstack API - Volumes?

2011-03-22 Thread Dan Prince
Hey John, Wasn't the plan that Rackspace would use API extensions to refine the volumes API and then move towards getting the API into nova core long term. Perhaps the extension could even live in the nova source code but just not be considered part of the version spec? Just wondering if there

Re: [Openstack] OS API server password generation

2011-03-07 Thread Dan Prince
Hi Thierry, Appoligies for the late blueprint submission. I guess I like using Blueprints for missing features so that I can setup the dependencies in launchpad. On this specific issue I just wanted some community comments and communication on the notes I had in etherpad. Although my initial em

[Openstack] Remove the local image service (nova/image/local.py)?

2011-03-07 Thread Dan Prince
Is anyone using the nova/image/local.py? This class appears to be a pre-glance image service that could be used with the Openstack API. As we now have glance I'm not sure we really need this anymore. The class initializes its path to a temp directory: def __init__(self): self._path

Re: [Openstack] OS API server password generation

2011-03-04 Thread Dan Prince
re to reaching parity in some of the larger (meta) blueprints. I bounced the idea around some of the teams within Rackspace and blueprint seemed right for this one. Perhaps I was wrong. Dan -Original Message- From: "Jay Pipes" Sent: Friday, March 4, 2011 10:27am To: "Dan Pri

[Openstack] OS API server password generation

2011-03-02 Thread Dan Prince
/openstack-api-server-passwords   http://etherpad.openstack.org/openstack-api-server-passwords Dan Prince ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More

Re: [Openstack] How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?

2011-02-28 Thread Dan Prince
I'm not a big fan of 'known bugs' in unit tests. Unit tests should always pass. How practical is it that I'm going to invest the time to write a unit tests on a bug which I'm then not able to fix in the same merge. In many cases writing the test cases are actually harder than writing the code t

Re: [Openstack] Steps that can help stabilize Nova's trunk

2011-02-17 Thread Dan Prince
Hey Jay, I like what you propose here. I have a couple of comments and questions. I see the 'smoketests' directory in the nova code. Is anyone running these tests on a regular basis (every commit)? Is this the best place to further build out integration tests? --- Regarding environment/setup

Re: [Openstack] Metadata schema design

2011-02-15 Thread Dan Prince
Hi Justin, My vote would be to call the table InstanceProperties. Regarding the ability of other services to use the table wouldn't it be cleaner if services had their own 'properties' tables (like the Glance registry service does). In other words services would have control over their own met