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[Russell Bryant <rbryant@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/23/2012 10:42 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:thierry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     Philipp Wollermann wrote:
>     > What's the advantage of replacing the native EC2 compatibility
>     layer with AWSOME from a user / operator point of view?
> 
>     One thing that was mentioned is that the proxy could be run on top of a
>     public cloud that chose to only deploy OpenStack API support.

This makes sense.

> It also makes project management easier, as the people interested in
> maintaining it can focus on the separate repository.

I'm not sure I buy into this, though.  Why is it harder for people that
are interested in EC2 support to work in the existing nova repo?  If
people want to collaborate before pushing into mainline, that can be
done via feature branches, too.

It risks making EC2 development harder, as well.  Pulling it out of nova
completely risks allowing the people that don't care about EC2 to care
even less.  It could make it easier for people to make changes that make
EC2 compatibility harder to maintain.

-- 
Russell Bryant