openstack team mailing list archive

[Christopher MacGown <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think openstack-common is a great idea also, but should we consider blueprinting it for discussion in San Antonio at the next openstack summit in November? It'll back-burner the thing and people will be able to mull over what makes sense to pull out and make common.

-Chris


On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:42 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:

> 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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> Post to     : openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> Post to     : openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp