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[Vishvananda Ishaya <vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>]

I openstack-common is a great idea.  I would suggest that it goes in the
post-austin release of nova.  Integrating the different openstack components
into a common system seems important, but I think we should solidify the 1.0
release of nova before focusing on integration.

Vish

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> So, I've noticed that there are a lot of similar code in the Nova and
> Swift (and I presume Glance as well...) that is redundant in its
> purpose.
>
> Examples of redundant code include:
>
> Configuration file and options processing
> =================================
>
> In Nova, gflags is used for CLI option processing and there is the
> --flags-file ability to read configuration options
> In Swift, the getopt, optparse and ConfigParser are used throughout the
> codebase
>
> WSGI
> =====
>
> In Nova, eventlet.wsgi is used, but wrapped with some convenience
> functions in /nova/wsgi.py
> In Swift, same thing, wrappers are in /swift/common/wsgi.py
>
> Logging
> ======
>
> Both Nova and Swift use the standard logging module with some utility
> wrappers linked with the
> way configuration options are processed.
>
> Common utility functions
> ====================
>
> Nova contains a file /nova/utils.py containing common utility functions.
> Swift contains a file /swift/common/utils.py also containing utility
> functions, many serving similar purposes of those in Nova and vice
> versa
>
> My proposal is to create another project on Launchpad called
> openstack-common that will contain a Python library that standardizes
> and consolidates all the above-mentioned overlap and makes an
> easy-to-use, well-documented library of common utilities and modules
> for the OpenStack family of projects to use.  We could definitely be
> more efficient in re-using code from Nova and Swfit that are
> redundant, and it would be good to have a common way of, for instance,
> accessing program configuration options and such.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -jay
>
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