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[Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 09:33 AM, Swaminathan Venkataraman wrote:
> >I've been playing around with openstack for a month now and was looking
> >to see how I can contribute. I saw that nova and glance use different
> >methods to send out notifications. It looked relatively straight forward
> >to make them use one common library for notifications. That way, when we
> >make changes or add new transports we do not have to do it twice (or
> >more number of times depending on how other components of openstack do
> >notifications). Let me know if someone is already working on this. If
> >not, let me know if this makes sense and I can start by creating a
> >blueprint. Also, is there any preference to use object oriented (or not)?
> 
> It is a surprise that the code is different for event notifications
> between Nova and Glance. I believe the same developer (Johannes
> Erdfelt) did them both. And I think his plan was to put the code
> into the openstack-common library.
> 
> Johannes, thoughts?

I only did the work for Glance and it was based on the Nova code at the
time. I guess the code has diverged in the 7 months since I did that
work.

I'm fine with getting it into common code, but I have no plans to do it
myself.

JE