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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/17/2012 08:02 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This was not a governance decision.  AFAIK Lunr is still under
> development, but will exposed to openstack as a backend to the existing
> nova-volume code. We have made significant progress during the Essex
> release at separating out nova-volumes so that it can be branched into
> its own project.  The first stage has been to expose a separate api
> endpoint. The api is being drafted here:
> http://jorgew..github.com/block-storage-api/content/
> <http://jorgew.github.com/block-storage-api/content/>
> 
> Next we need a client/cli to interact with the api.  I've started
> working on one here:
> https://github..com/vishvananda/python-cinderclient
> <https://github.com/vishvananda/python-cinderclient>
> 
> (Note: the code-name choice of cinder, which I really like, but may need
> to be vetted by others when it splits into its own project)

I like the name cinder too. Unfortunately, there is a multi-media
library used by folks who do interactive performance work called Cinder:

http://libcinder.org

(I hate running out of words)

> Finally we need to do some lower level separation to pull the code into
> its own repository.  I think this should be doable with a few weeks of
> work and I was going to suggest that we do it in F* at the design summit.

Word. Awesome.

> Vish
> 
> On Jan 16, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Oleg Gelbukh wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have read about BSaaS project codenamed 'Lunr' in the Openstack wiki
>> and in this list archive. But it seems that its development was
>> abandoned by the team and focus was switched to developing integrated
>> nova-volume service. Was that a governance decision not to use
>> external block storage service, or it was decided to focus on
>> integrated service first and then expand it into dedicated project? Or
>> does the Lunr development continue somewhere?
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Oleg Gelbukh
>> Sr. Engineer
>> Mirantis Inc.
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