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[Chris Behrens <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 3, 2012, at 8:00 AM, Russell Bryant wrote:
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> 3) nova.local
> 
> This looks like a good candidate for moving to openstack-common and
> switching all usage of nova.local to be openstack.common.local.
> 

Yeah, this one might be kind of weird, because it's used to set the 'nova context', and I'm not sure it actually applies to Openstack generically.

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> 5) nova.context
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> I haven't looked at this one in detail, yet.  We'll have to sort out
> what to do with RequestContext.  I see in the message from Swaminathan
> Venkataraman that both openstack-common and nova have RequestContext,
> but there's more code in the nova version.  I suppose we should look at
> making the openstack-common version sufficient for nova and then switch
> nova to it.

Hm.  I wonder if we need some sort of serialize/deserialize callbacks or something so that nova can encode/decode the context that's passed… and not have any of this context stuff be a part of openstack-common.  Just a random thought without looking or thinking about it too much. :)
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- Chris