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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

+1

Thanks for exploring this, Russell!

Next step: getting a common REST API abstraction in place that all the
projects can use... ;-)

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On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> There was a thread on this list a little while ago about moving the
> notification drivers that are in nova and glance into openstack.common
> since they provide very similar functionality, but have implementations
> that have diverged over time.  Is anyone actively working on this?  If
> so, please let me know.
>
> For the message queue notifiers, nova uses nova.rpc to do the heavy
> lifting.  Glance has notifiers written against the messaging libs
> directly.  I think it makes sense to take the nova approach.  This would
> mean moving nova.rpc into openstack.common before the notifiers can get
> moved.
>
> I have started looking at moving nova.rpc to openstack.common.rpc.  My
> plan is:
>
> 1) Write a series of patches that reduces coupling in nova.rpc on the
> rest of nova.
>
> 2) Submit changes needed to support this decoupling to openstack.common.
>
> 3) Once nova.rpc is sufficiently decoupled, move it to openstack.common.
>
> While doing the above, I want to aim for the least amount of disruption
> to the rpc interface as is practical.
>
> While we're at it, is it time to drop nova.rpc.impl_carrot?  It is
> marked as deprecated in Essex.  Is there any reason anyone would still
> use impl_carrot over impl_kombu?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Russell Bryant
>
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