Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][stable] Proposal to add Tony Breeds to nova-stable-maint

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Still
We can give him elocution classes at the mid-cycle. It's like my fair lady, but nerdier. Michael On 16 Jan 2016 4:11 AM, "Dan Smith" wrote: > > I'm formally proposing that the nova-stable-maint team [1] adds Tony > > Breeds to the core team. > > My major complaint with Tony

Re: [openstack-dev] Long description of oslo.privsep

2016-01-15 Thread Michael Still
I have just approved that review, as it moves the ball in the right direction. Michael On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Haha, needs work :) > > -- Dims > > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 10:53 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > On 01/16/2016

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][stable] Proposal to add Tony Breeds to nova-stable-maint

2016-01-14 Thread Michael Still
I think Tony would be a valuable addition to the team. +1 Michael On 14 Jan 2016 7:59 AM, "Matt Riedemann" wrote: > I'm formally proposing that the nova-stable-maint team [1] adds Tony > Breeds to the core team. > > I don't have a way to track review status on

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Nova mid cycle details

2015-11-27 Thread Michael Still
Hey, I filled in the first part of that page, but when it got to hotels I got confused. The web site doesn't seem to mention the night rate for the HP price. Do you know what that is? Thanks, Michael On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 3:06 AM, Murray, Paul (HP Cloud) wrote: > The Nova

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] live migration sub-team meeting

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Still
So, its been a week. What time are we picking? Michael On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Murray, Paul (HP Cloud) wrote: > > > Most team members expressed they would like a regular IRC meeting for > > > tracking work and raising blocking issues. Looking at the contributors > > >

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Proposal to add Alex Xu to nova-core

2015-11-08 Thread Michael Still
+1 Alex does good work. Michael On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:32 AM, John Garbutt wrote: > Hi, > > I propose we add Alex Xu[1] to nova-core. > > Over the last few cycles he has consistently been doing great work, > including some quality reviews, particularly around the API.

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Proposal to add Sylvain Bauza to nova-core

2015-11-08 Thread Michael Still
+1... Sylvain is an excellent reviewer. On Sat, Nov 7, 2015 at 2:32 AM, John Garbutt wrote: > Hi, > > I propose we add Sylvain Bauza[1] to nova-core. > > Over the last few cycles he has consistently been doing great work, > including some quality reviews, particularly

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] notification subteam

2015-11-03 Thread Michael Still
I'd be interested in being involved with this, and I know Paul Murray is interested as well. I went to make a doodle, but then realised the only non-terrible timeslot for Australia / UK / US Central is 8pm UTC (7am Australia, 8pm London, 2pm Central US). So what do people think of that time slot?

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Details for the Nova Mitaka mid-cycle

2015-10-29 Thread Michael Still
Hi, It has been decided that the Nova Mitaka mid-cycle would be in Bristol, UK between 26 and 28 January. You can register at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/openstack-mitaka-nova-mid-cycle-meetup-tickets-19326224257 Details of hotel discounts etc will be added to this thread when they are

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova-compute][nova][libvirt] Extending Nova-Compute for image prefetching

2015-10-08 Thread Michael Still
I think I'd rephrase your definition of pre-fetched to be honest -- something more like "images on this hypervisor node without a currently running instance". So, your operations would become: - trigger an image prefetching - list unused base images (and perhaps when they were last used) -

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][nova][all] Pillow breaking gate?

2015-10-01 Thread Michael Still
I've +2'ed Tony's Nova patch, but it would be nice to get another core to take a look as well. Michael On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > On 2 October 2015 at 12:00, Kevin L. Mitchell > wrote: > > On Thu,

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [docs] Are cells still 'experimental'?

2015-09-03 Thread Michael Still
I think they should not be marked experimental. For better or for worse, there are multiple sites deployed, and we will support them if something goes wrong. That said, I wouldn't be encouraging new deployments of cells v1 at this point. Michael On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Lana Brindley

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] should we allow overcommit for a single VM?

2015-08-24 Thread Michael Still
I agree with the rationale here, and will be reviewing https://review.openstack.org/#/c/215764/ accordingly. Michael On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 01:22:28PM -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: I tried bringing this up on the

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-08-12 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Sean Dague s...@dague.net wrote: On 08/12/2015 02:23 PM, Jay Pipes wrote: On 08/12/2015 01:20 PM, Markus Zoeller wrote: snip The three questions I have with every config option: 1) which service(s) access this option? 2) what does it do? / what's the

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-24 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Doug Hellmann d...@doughellmann.com wrote: One idea I've tossed around a bit is having options defined in data files that ship with the code, rather than being inside the Python code itself. Maybe a first pass at that would be to offload the help to a separate

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-24 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Daniel P. Berrange berra...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Still wrote: In fact, I did an example of what I thought it would look like already: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/205154/ I welcome discussion

Re: [openstack-dev] [openstack][nova] Streamlining of config options in nova

2015-07-23 Thread Michael Still
this at the Nova meetup this morning. And the general consensus was the opposite. It would be better to collect all the config options in one file, especially if we are going to expand the help (which we would like to do). Exceptions are done that way in Nova. Michael Still is going to propose some

Re: [openstack-dev] Segmentation Fault in nova-compute service on ARM platform.

2015-07-07 Thread Michael Still
Havana is very very old and no longer supported. Why are you porting that release in particular? Michael On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Pradeep kumar topradeepyaduvan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys, I am porting openstack on arm platform, but while running nova-compute service on it throws

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Deadline for mid-cycle meetup signup

2015-07-02 Thread Michael Still
Just a reminder that the deadline is next week! Cheers, Michael On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Hi, I just wanted to let people know that we're setting a deadline of 7 July for mid-cycle meetup signups. So, if you're intending to sign up but haven't

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Deadline for mid-cycle meetup signup

2015-06-25 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I just wanted to let people know that we're setting a deadline of 7 July for mid-cycle meetup signups. So, if you're intending to sign up but haven't already I'd do it real soon now. You can sign up at:

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] How to properly detect and fence a compromised host (and why I dislike TrustedFilter)

2015-06-23 Thread Michael Still
I agree. I feel like this is another example of functionality which is trivially implemented outside nova, and where it works much better if we don't do it. Couldn't an admin just have a cron job which verifies hosts, and then adds them to a compromised-hosts host aggregate if they're owned? I

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking optional requirements

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
, Michael On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 2:04 AM, Jeremy Stanley fu...@yuggoth.org wrote: On 2015-06-22 21:05:11 +1000 (+1000), Michael Still wrote: Sure, except where the thing isn't in pip... I just learned tonight that the libosinfo thing in the review at the start of this thread is a c library

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking optional requirements

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
? Cheers, Michael On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Sean Dague s...@dague.net wrote: On 06/22/2015 06:37 AM, Michael Still wrote: Hi, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149625 made me think about optional requirements for nova. Some hypervisor drivers have requirements that are either only

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking optional requirements

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
Hi, https://review.openstack.org/#/c/149625 made me think about optional requirements for nova. Some hypervisor drivers have requirements that are either only needed for their driver, or are optional to their driver. Examples include the ironic driver depending on the ironic client, and the

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] [Nova] [Ironic] [Magnum] Microversion guideline in API-WG

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Still
(Noting that its kind of late where I am). Sean, I totally agree that we should fix uname. Let's get on that. Michael On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Sean Dague s...@dague.net wrote: On 06/22/2015 05:28 AM, John Garbutt wrote: On 22 June 2015 at 00:14, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote

Re: [openstack-dev] [api] [Nova] [Ironic] [Magnum] Microversion guideline in API-WG

2015-06-21 Thread Michael Still
As an aside, do we think that exposing the exact version of a server process is safe from a security perspective? Michael On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Devananda van der Veen devananda@gmail.com wrote: Almost all of our discussions so far on this topic have left something out, which

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Plan to consolidate FS-style libvirt volume drivers under a common base class

2015-06-16 Thread Michael Still
I don't think you need a spec for this (its a refactor). That said, I'd be interested in exploring how you deprecate the old flags. Can you have more than one deprecated name for a single flag? Michael On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Matt Riedemann mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] File injection, config drive and cloud-init

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Still
Hi! On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Mark Boo mrkzm...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Now my questions are: - Is this (file injection using image mounting) likely to be deprecated at some point in the future? Yes, we've been building up to that for a long time and I can't see is not doing it. Its

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoning old specs for Nova

2015-06-11 Thread Michael Still
:10 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: I just did an abandon run for specs that meet this criteria and haven't been touched since March. Once again, this isn't a kiss of death, just an attempt at review backlog hygiene. Cheers, Michael On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:26 AM, John Garbutt j

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Using depends-on for patches which require an approved spec

2015-05-22 Thread Michael Still
Hey, it would be cool if devs posting changes for nova which depend on us approving their spec could use Depends-On to make sure their code doesn't land until the spec does. Just my random thought for the day. Michael -- Rackspace Australia

Re: [openstack-dev] [Oslo] Review dashboard for oslo?

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
Oh cool. Thanks! Michael On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: One is linked from https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo#Review_Links On 22 May 2015 at 05:13, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Hi, I'm finding that oslo being in 1,400 different

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova][libvirt] Understand why we lookup libvirt domains by instance name

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui sahid.ferdja...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:23:35AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 03:01:50PM -0700, Michael Still wrote: I note that we use instance.name to lookup the libvirt domain a bunch

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoning old specs for Nova

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Hi, I just wanted to let people know that I am going through abandoning old specs for Nova at the moment. The criteria I am using is: - spec targets kilo - no review comments or other activity since January or February I think its worth reinforcing

[openstack-dev] [Oslo] Review dashboard for oslo?

2015-05-21 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I'm finding that oslo being in 1,400 different git repos is making it hard to build a gerrit review dashboard URL. Does anyone have one of these already built that I can just steal? Thanks, Michael -- Rackspace Australia

[openstack-dev] [Nova][libvirt] Understand why we lookup libvirt domains by instance name

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Still
I note that we use instance.name to lookup the libvirt domain a bunch in the driver. I'm wondering why we don't just use instance.uuid all the time -- the code for that already exists. Is there a good reason to not move to always using the uuid? I ask because instance.name is not guaranteed to be

Re: [openstack-dev] [oslo] Inviting Robert Collins to Oslo core

2015-05-20 Thread Michael Still
I am +1 on this. Michael On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Julien Danjou jul...@danjou.info wrote: On Wed, May 20 2015, Davanum Srinivas wrote: I'd like to invite Robert Collins (aka lifeless) as an Oslo core. Robert has been a long time contributor to a whole bunch of OpenStack projects and

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty mid-cycle meetup

2015-05-11 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: I thought I should let people know that we've had 14 people sign up for the mid-cycle so far. Michael On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: As discussed at the Nova meeting this morning, we'd

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty mid-cycle meetup

2015-05-08 Thread Michael Still
I thought I should let people know that we've had 14 people sign up for the mid-cycle so far. Michael On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 3:55 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: As discussed at the Nova meeting this morning, we'd like to gauge interest in a mid-cycle meetup for the Liberty release

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty mid-cycle meetup

2015-05-07 Thread Michael Still
As discussed at the Nova meeting this morning, we'd like to gauge interest in a mid-cycle meetup for the Liberty release. To that end, I've created the following eventbrite event like we have had for previous meetups. If you sign up, you're expressing interest in the event and if we decide

[openstack-dev] [Nova][Ironic] Large number of ironic driver bugs in nova

2015-05-05 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I noticed last night that there are 23 bugs currently filed in nova tagged as ironic related. Whilst some of those are scheduler issues, a lot of them seem like things in the ironic driver itself. Does the ironic team have someone assigned to work on these bugs and generally keep an eye on

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Abandoning old specs for Nova

2015-05-03 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I just wanted to let people know that I am going through abandoning old specs for Nova at the moment. The criteria I am using is: - spec targets kilo - no review comments or other activity since January or February I think its worth reinforcing that an abandon isn't a -2... An upload of a

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Proposal to add Melanie Witt to nova-core

2015-04-30 Thread Michael Still
+1 I think she'd be a valuable addition to the team. Michael On 30 Apr 2015 9:30 pm, John Garbutt j...@johngarbutt.com wrote: Hi, I propose we add Melanie to nova-core. She has been consistently doing great quality code reviews[1], alongside a wide array of other really valuable

Re: [openstack-dev] [ec2-api] EC2-API release 0.1.0 available

2015-04-23 Thread Michael Still
Excellent, and well done! I think it would be a good idea to send this announcement to the openstack-operators list as well, as some ops people might not notice it here. Cheers, Michael On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:33 PM, Alexandre Levine alev...@cloudscaling.com wrote: Hello everyone, We've

[openstack-dev] TC non-candidacy

2015-04-23 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I've served on the TC for a while now and enjoyed it. However, I feel I've reached a point where I need to step back and take a break. I will therefore not be running this time around. I'm sure I'll return just as soon as my righteous anger builds up again. Cheers, Michael -- Rackspace

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Required data migrations in Kilo, need Turbo Hipster tests updated

2015-04-22 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:31 AM, Dan Smith d...@danplanet.com wrote: Sure, but for people doing continuous deployment, they clearly haven't ran the migrate_flavor_data (or if they have, they haven't filed any bugs about it not working[0]). Hence the usefulness of T-H here, right? The point of

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Required data migrations in Kilo, need Turbo Hipster tests updated

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Still
Hey, turbo hipster already knows how to upgrade major releases, so adding this should be possible. That said, I've been travelling all day so haven't had a chance to look at this. If Josh doesn't beat me to it, I will take a look when I get to my hotel tonight. (We should also note that we can

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Maintaining focus on Kilo

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Still
Hi, we need to make sure we continue to progress on bugs targeted as likely to need backport to Kilo. The current list is here -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=kilo-rc-potential . Bugs on that list which have fixes merged and backports prepared will stand a very good chance of

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Maintaining focus on Kilo

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Dan Smith d...@danplanet.com wrote: we need to make sure we continue to progress on bugs targeted as likely to need backport to Kilo. The current list is here -- https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs?field.tag=kilo-rc-potential . Bugs on that list which have

Re: [openstack-dev] In loving memory of Chris Yeoh

2015-04-12 Thread Michael Still
envelopes available at the funeral, or you can choose your preferred research to fund, should you wish to do so. You have our thanks. Michael On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: It is my sad duty to inform the community that Chris Yeoh passed away this morning. Chris

[openstack-dev] [Nova] RC1 state of play

2015-04-09 Thread Michael Still
There are a few bugs still outstanding for nova's RC1. Here's a quick summary. For each of these we need to either merge the fix, or bump the bug from being release blocking. - https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1427351 cells: hypervisor API extension can't find compute_node services This

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Things to tackle in Liberty

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Still
I just wanted to send a note about John running in the PTL election for Nova. I want to make it clear that I think having more than one candidate is a good thing -- its a healthy part of a functional democracy, and it also means regardless of the outcome we have at least one succession planning

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [stringfreeze] request for SFE

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Still
I am ok with this change too, which now has two +2's. If someone doesn't object in the next few hours I will merge the change. Michael On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Thierry Carrez thie...@openstack.org wrote: Finucane, Stephen wrote: Nova cores, I would like to request a SFE for the below

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] [stringfreeze] request for SFE for live-migration on system z (review 166130)

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Still
How many users are likely to use live migration without the changes to qemu you mention? How functional would the live migration be? Thanks, Michael On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Markus Zoeller mzoel...@de.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to request a string freeze exception for this review:

[openstack-dev] In loving memory of Chris Yeoh

2015-04-07 Thread Michael Still
It is my sad duty to inform the community that Chris Yeoh passed away this morning. Chris leaves behind a daughter Alyssa, aged 6, who I hope will remember Chris as the clever and caring person that I will remember him as. I haven’t had a chance to confirm with the family if they want flowers or a

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] PTL Candidacy

2015-04-06 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Matthew Booth mbo...@redhat.com wrote: On 02/04/15 07:20, Michael Still wrote: First off, sorry for the slow reply to this email. The reason that I sent my candidacy email at the very start of the election window is that Easter is a four day holiday in Australia

[openstack-dev] [Nova] PTL Candidacy

2015-04-02 Thread Michael Still
I'd like another term as Nova PTL, if you'll have me. I feel Kilo has gone reasonably well for Nova -- our experiment with priorities has meant that we’ve got a lot of important work done. We have progressed well with cells v2, our continued objects transition, scheduler refactoring, and the v2.1

Re: [openstack-dev] Reducing noise of the ML (was: Re: [Ceilometer] proposal to add ZhiQiang Fan to Ceilometer core)

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
Actually, for some projects the +1 is part of a public voting process and therefore required. Michael On 2 Apr 2015 8:11 am, Steve Martinelli steve...@ca.ibm.com wrote: *puts mailing list police hat on* Refer to http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-March/059642.html I

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] bug expiration

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Sylvain Bauza sba...@redhat.com wrote: Le 01/04/2015 15:51, Sean Dague a écrit : I just spent a chunk of the morning purging out some really old Incomplete bugs because about 9 months ago

Re: [openstack-dev] Mellanox request for permission for Nova CI

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
This looks good to me, but it would be interesting to see what Sean or Matt thought. Michael On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 3:25 AM, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Lenny Verkhovsky len...@mellanox.com wrote: Hi all, We had some issues with

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] unit tests result in false negatives on system z platform CI

2015-04-01 Thread Michael Still
Thanks for the detailed email on this. How about we add this to the agenda for this weeks nova meeting? One option would be to add a fixture to some higher level test class, but perhaps someone has a better idea than that. Michael On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Markus Zoeller

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Hyper-V CI broken?

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Still
I apologise if there's already been an email about this, I can't see one. Is the Hyper-V CI broken at the moment? It looks like there are a number of tests failing for every change, including trivial typo fixes. An example: http://64.119.130.115/168500/4/results.html.gz

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Identifying release critical bugs in Kilo

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Still
Hi! As discussed in the nova meeting last week, now is the time for us to be focusing on closing release critical bugs in Kilo. The nominal date for RC1 is 9 April, but it will release sooner than that if we close all of the bugs targetted to RC1 before then. This calls for two actions: - if

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Hierarchical Multitenancy quotas

2015-03-31 Thread Michael Still
The blueprint for this work appears to be https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/nested-quota-driver-api which shows it didn't make it into Nova in Kilo. Looking at the reviews, I agree they didn't get enough attention, but there isn't a lot that we can do about that right now. We can

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Tracking ideas for summit sessions

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Still
Hi, let's start tracking ideas for summit sessions in this etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/liberty-nova-summit-ideas Have at it! Cheers, Michael -- Rackspace Australia __ OpenStack Development Mailing

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] proposing feature for Liberty, would this need a spec?

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Still
I'm not 100% sure if this would be trivial or not, but the process to find out isn't scary. We should add this to a nova meeting agenda on the wiki and talk through it during a meeting. (Noting that we're not approving specs for liberty in any form until the Kilo branch is cut, so we have some

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Liberty specs are now open

2015-03-02 Thread Michael Still
Hi, this is just a quick note to let you know that Liberty specs are now open for Nova. By open I mean that it is possible to upload such a spec, but I wouldn't expect to see much review effort on these until Kilo is ready. If authors of previously approved specs (Juno or Kilo) want to use the

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-26 Thread Michael Still
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Stefano Maffulli stef...@openstack.org wrote: Does it make sense to purge old stuff regularly so we have a better overview? Or maybe we should chart a distribution of age of proposed changesets, too in order to get a better understanding of where the outliers

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] release request for python-novaclient

2015-02-19 Thread Michael Still
I can do another release if needed once we've landed a fix, although it sounds like this can be fixed in neutron? Michael On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:33 AM, melanie witt melwi...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 19, 2015, at 11:52, Terry Wilson twil...@redhat.com wrote: Unfortunately, the new novaclient

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] release request for python-novaclient

2015-02-19 Thread Michael Still
to the novaclient release group now. Michael On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:12 AM, Matt Riedemann mrie...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On 2/12/2015 6:55 PM, Michael Still wrote: This was discussed in the nova meeting this morning. In that meeting we declared ourselves unwedged and ready to do a release, and I

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] release request for python-novaclient

2015-02-12 Thread Michael Still
instead. Michael On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: The previous policy is that we do a release when requested or when a critical bug fix merges. I don't see any critical fixes

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] release request for python-novaclient

2015-02-09 Thread Michael Still
The previous policy is that we do a release when requested or when a critical bug fix merges. I don't see any critical fixes awaiting release, but I am not opposed to a release. The reason I didn't do this yesterday is that Joe wanted some time to pin the stable requirements, which I believe he

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] stuck patches at the nova IRC meeting

2015-02-05 Thread Michael Still
Certainly it was my intent when I created that agenda item to cover reviews that wouldn't otherwise reach a decision -- either two cores wedged, or something else that we can't resolve trivially in gerrit. Now, I can see that people don't like reviews sitting for a long time, but that's probably

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Nominating Melanie Witt for python-novaclient-core

2015-02-04 Thread Michael Still
Its been a week, so I have now added Melanie to this group. Welcome aboard! Michael On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Greetings, I would like to nominate Melanie Witt for the python-novaclient-core team. (What is python-novaclient-core? Its a new group

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][ec2-api] Tagging functionality in nova's EC2 API

2015-02-03 Thread Michael Still
I agree that the priority at the moment for Nova should be getting our EC2 implementation working well enough that it buys us time to transition people to whatever the future may be. Its unfortunate that we have approved the spec for this work in Kilo, but I think that's an indication that we

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-02-02 Thread Michael Still
, Michael Still wrote: So, its exciting to me that we seem to developing more forward momentum here. I personally think the way forward is a staged transition from the in-nova EC2 API to the stackforge project, with testing added to ensure that we are feature complete between the two. I note

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-02-01 Thread Michael Still
/in/randybias ASSISTANT: ren...@emc.com On 1/29/15, 4:01 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Hi, as you might have read on openstack-dev, the Nova EC2 API implementation is in a pretty sad state. I wont repeat all of those details here -- you can read the thread on openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [Cinder][nova] Cinder backend for ephemeral disks?

2015-02-01 Thread Michael Still
It looks like this was never re-proposed for Kilo. I am open to it being proposed for L* when that release opens for specs soon, but we need a developer to be advocating for it. Michael On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Adam Lawson alaw...@aqorn.com wrote: Question, looks like this spec was

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-29 Thread Michael Still
project. That seems the best way forward at this point. Thanks, Michael On 30 Jan 2015 11:11 am, matt m...@nycresistor.com wrote: Is there a blue print or some set of bugs tagged in some way to tackle? -matt On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Hi, as you

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-29 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: There is an ec2 bug tag in launchpad. I would link to it except I am writing this offline. I will fix that later today. Ok, now that the 40 seater turbo prop has landed, here we go: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bugs

[openstack-dev] Finding people to work on the EC2 API in Nova

2015-01-29 Thread Michael Still
Hi, as you might have read on openstack-dev, the Nova EC2 API implementation is in a pretty sad state. I wont repeat all of those details here -- you can read the thread on openstack-dev for detail. However, we got here because no one is maintaining the code in Nova for the EC2 API. This is

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-28 Thread Michael Still
And today's: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gyadkf7bm7wfpsrshlfenb4hiqa Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Today's hangout: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwjbog3l3omtk2f4tt5s5v4hn4a Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michael

[openstack-dev] [nova] Nominating Melanie Witt for python-novaclient-core

2015-01-27 Thread Michael Still
Greetings, I would like to nominate Melanie Witt for the python-novaclient-core team. (What is python-novaclient-core? Its a new group which will contain all of nova-core as well as anyone else we think should have core reviewer powers on just the python-novaclient code). Melanie has been

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-27 Thread Michael Still
Today's hangout: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gwjbog3l3omtk2f4tt5s5v4hn4a Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: For reference, that's because we were having lunch. It seems to be working well again. Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:24 AM

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-26 Thread Michael Still
Sigh, we had troubles with mumble being unreliable, so now we're playing with google hangouts: https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/gvieuyvxsvpvvsgs2vdmtqtbbea Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:18 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: As an experiment, I've put the meetup onto a mumble

[openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-26 Thread Michael Still
As an experiment, I've put the meetup onto a mumble server at nova.rcbops.com. The server password is midcycle. At the least this should let people listen in and hopefully comment if they need to. Michael -- Rackspace Australia

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Mumble server for the mid-cycle meetup

2015-01-26 Thread Michael Still
For reference, that's because we were having lunch. It seems to be working well again. Michael On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net wrote: every participant is muted... so there's no sound :( On 27 January 2015 at 07:42, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

2015-01-19 Thread Michael Still
Mostly. qcow2 can do a copy on write layer, although it can be disabled IIRC. So if COW is turned on, you get only the delta in the instance directory when using qcow2. Cheers, Michael On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:40 AM, Dmitry Guryanov dgurya...@parallels.com wrote: Hello, Do I understand

[openstack-dev] [nova] Reminder of priority etherpad

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I know many of us are just coming back from holiday breaks -- I certainly am. It came up in the nova meeting this morning that we've stopped being so reliable at reviewing the priority review etherpad when deciding what to review. So -- it would be cool if reviewers (everyone, not just core)

Re: [openstack-dev] Resending: [nova] Request Spec Freeze Exception for: Remove direct nova DB/API access in Scheduler Filters

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Still
Thanks for this, I will add it to the list. Michael On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote: I sent this at the beginning of the exception process, but it did not appear on the list of exceptions mikal posted at today's nova meeting, so I'm re-sending. Begin

Re: [openstack-dev] Resend: [nova] Request Spec Freeze Exception for Enhance iSCSI multipath/failover support

2015-01-15 Thread Michael Still
Done. Cheers, Michael On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Tomoki Sekiyama tomoki.sekiy...@hds.com wrote: Michael, These wasn't on the list of of exceptions at today's nova meeting. Please add them. On 1/8/15, 11:48 , Tomoki Sekiyama tomoki.sekiy...@hds.com wrote: Hi, I have submitted 2

Re: [openstack-dev] [Openstack-operators] The state of nova-network to neutron migration

2015-01-13 Thread Michael Still
Hi, I just wanted to make sure people know that a small group of us got together in a hallway at linux.conf.au 2015 to talk about this. It wasn't an attempt to exclude anyone, we just all happened to be in the same place at the same time. To that end, we made some notes from the chat, which are

[openstack-dev] [Nova] Etherpad for the Nova midcycle meetup

2015-01-06 Thread Michael Still
Heya, https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/kilo-nova-midcycle is the etherpad for the Nova midcycle meetup. I'd like to start collecting topics we'd like to cover, and we'll sort them by priority later once we've collected a few. Thanks, Michael -- Rackspace Australia

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova blueprint] Ask for the blueprint of Enhance iSCSI volume multipath support.

2015-01-04 Thread Michael Still
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:11 PM, liuxinguo liuxin...@huawei.com wrote: I have seen that the blueprint of “Enhance iSCSI multipath support” for cinder have been approved and target in kilo-2, I want to know that will the blueprint of Enhance iSCSI volume multipath support for nova be

[openstack-dev] [nova] No team meeting this week

2014-12-29 Thread Michael Still
I assume people generally take new years day off... Cheers, Michael -- Rackspace Australia ___ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Kilo specs review day

2014-12-11 Thread Michael Still
The dashboard is really cool, although I had to fix the spelling error... Michael On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Joe Gordon joe.gord...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Andrew Laski andrew.la...@rackspace.com wrote: On 12/10/2014 04:41 PM, Michael Still wrote: Hi

[openstack-dev] [nova] Kilo specs review day

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Still
Hi, at the design summit we said that we would not approve specifications after the kilo-1 deadline, which is 18 December. Unfortunately, we’ve had a lot of specifications proposed this cycle (166 to my count), and haven’t kept up with the review workload. Therefore, I propose that Friday this

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron] mid-cycle update

2014-12-10 Thread Michael Still
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Kyle Mestery mest...@mestery.com wrote: The Neutron mid-cycle [1] is now complete, I wanted to let everyone know how it went. Thanks to all who attended, we got a lot done. I admit to being skeptical of mid-cycles, especially given the cross project meeting a

Re: [openstack-dev] [Compute][Nova] Mid-cycle meetup details for kilo

2014-12-08 Thread Michael Still
, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: Sigh, sorry. It is of course the Kilo meetup: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/openstack-nova-kilo-mid-cycle-developer-meetup-tickets-14767182039 Michael On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Michael Still mi...@stillhq.com wrote: I've

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Spring cleaning nova-core

2014-12-07 Thread Michael Still
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Gary Kotton gkot...@vmware.com wrote: On 12/6/14, 7:42 PM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] -1 on pixelbeat, since he's been active in reviews on various things AFAICT in the last 60-90 days and seems to be still a considerate reviewer in various areas.

Re: [openstack-dev] [Nova] Spring cleaning nova-core

2014-12-07 Thread Michael Still
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Jay Pipes jaypi...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/07/2014 04:19 AM, Michael Still wrote: [snip] We've always said we expect cores to maintain an average of two reviews per day. That's not new, nor a rule created by me. Padraig is a great guy, but has been working

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