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Re: Enhancements to Glance in Diablo? Input welcomed

 

Here's another Glance enhancement that we need for Rackspace:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/glance-notifications




On 4/12/11 1:11 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hey all,
>
>We're in the planning stages for Diablo now, working on putting
>together blueprints, which turn into sessions at the design summit.
>
>I know the Glance team is small and our project narrow in scope, but
>it would be great to get some feedback from the list about stuff you'd
>like to see included in Glance in the Diablo release.
>
>Some possible thoughts:
>
>* Authn/authz - This is a big one, but dependent on the overall
>discussion of federated auth going on in the Nova/Swift communities.
>Glance will merely follow suit with what Nova does most likely.
>* Image conversion. This actually already has a blueprint, but maybe
>good for a detailed discussion at the summit? See
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/glance/+spec/image-file-conversion
>* Metrics - for instance, tracking operations performed (read/write,
>bytes out/in, ?) Would this even be useful?
>* Integration with more backend storage systems?
>* XML support in the API?
>* Having Glance "understand" what is contained in the disk images by
>inspecting them on upload?
>* A Glance dashboard app?
>
>Please feel free to expand on any of the above and add any suggestions
>you have on the future direction of Glance. Your input is truly
>appreciated.
>
>Cheers!
>jay
>
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