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[<Ed_Conzel@xxxxxxxx>]

Soren,

That can work and may be the only choice if there is an extended feature freeze. Although, that may end up creating a service provider-specific fork...which may not be a bad thing.

Thanks!

Ed


-----Original Message-----
From: Soren Hansen [mailto:soren@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 10:58 AM
To: Conzel, Ed
Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Running for Nova PTL

2012/2/24  <Ed_Conzel@xxxxxxxx>:
> I like most of what you say, but the ""no new features at all" policy 
> for trunk for the Folsom" causes concern. I absolutely agree that Nova 
> needs to be more stable, predictable and  have more work done around 
> operations. This is especially true for service provider usage. I 
> think if Nova was closer to feature complete, that the ""no new 
> features at all" policy for trunk for the Folsom" would be fine. It is 
> probably doable for Folsom if the focus is on private cloud 
> functionality. But for service providers, Nova is not feature complete 
> and there is still much needed from the operations standpoint.

I understand it's a trade-off. People may feel there are features missing before they can really use Nova, but noone can use it if it's unstable or doesn't work. I believe everyone will be better off if we spend some time (like, say, 6 months time) and focus exclusively on addressing these things. Thinking we can both add lots of new features as well as rework things for more stability at the same time is how we've ended up here.

If you know of a way to achieve both, I'd love to hear about it.

As much as I wish everyone would drop what they are doing and start helping in this effort, I understand some groups have certain features they simply cannot defer. I'd like to encourage this to happen collaboratively in public repos, and with frequent rebases against trunk to ease inclusion into trunk later on. In a way, they'd be patch sets more than anything else.

How does that sound to you?

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