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    <p>Forwarded for posterity and follow-up.<br>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Subject:
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            <td>Re: GlusterFS removal from Openstack Cinder</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">Date: </th>
            <td>Fri, 05 May 2017 21:07:27 +0000</td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">From: </th>
            <td>Amye Scavarda <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:amye@redhat.com">&lt;amye@redhat.com&gt;</a></td>
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            <th align="RIGHT" nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE">To: </th>
            <td>Eric Harney <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:eharney@redhat.com">&lt;eharney@redhat.com&gt;</a>, Joe Julian
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:me@joejulian.name">&lt;me@joejulian.name&gt;</a>, Vijay Bellur
              <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:vbellur@redhat.com">&lt;vbellur@redhat.com&gt;</a></td>
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            <td>Amye Scavarda <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:amye@redhat.com">&lt;amye@redhat.com&gt;</a></td>
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      <div>Eric, </div>
      <div>I'm sorry to hear this. </div>
      <div>I'm reaching out internally (within Gluster CI team and
        CentOS CI which supports Gluster) to get an idea of the level of
        effort we'll need to provide to resolve this. </div>
      <div>It'll take me a few days to get this, but this is on my
        radar. In the meantime, is there somewhere I should be looking
        at for requirements to meet this gateway? </div>
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      <div>Thanks! </div>
      <div>-- amye </div>
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          <div>On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 16:09 Joe Julian &lt;<a
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            wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On
            05/05/2017 12:54 PM, Eric Harney wrote:<br>
            &gt;&gt; On 04/28/2017 12:41 PM, Joe Julian wrote:<br>
            &gt;&gt;&gt; I learned, today, that GlusterFS was deprecated
            and removed from<br>
            &gt;&gt;&gt; Cinder as one of our #gluster (freenode) users
            was attempting to<br>
            &gt;&gt;&gt; upgrade openstack. I could find no rational nor
            discussion of that<br>
            &gt;&gt;&gt; removal. Could you please educate me about that
            decision?<br>
            &gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; Hi Joe,<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; I can fill in on the rationale here.<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; Keeping a driver in the Cinder tree requires running a
            CI platform to<br>
            &gt; test that driver and report results against all
            patchsets submitted to<br>
            &gt; Cinder.  This is a fairly large burden, which we could
            not meet once the<br>
            &gt; Gluster Cinder driver was no longer an active
            development target at Red Hat.<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; This was communicated via a warning issued by the
            driver for anyone<br>
            &gt; running the OpenStack Newton code, and via the Cinder
            release notes for<br>
            &gt; the Ocata release.  (I can see in retrospect that this
            was probably not<br>
            &gt; communicated widely enough.)<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; I apologize for not reaching out to the Gluster
            community about this.<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; If someone from the Gluster world is interested in
            bringing this driver<br>
            &gt; back, I can help coordinate there.  But it will require
            someone stepping<br>
            &gt; in in a big way to maintain it.<br>
            &gt;<br>
            &gt; Thanks,<br>
            &gt; Eric<br>
            <br>
            Ah, Red Hat's statement that the acquisition of InkTank was
            not an<br>
            abandonment of Gluster seems rather disingenuous now. I'm
            disappointed.<br>
            <br>
            Would you please start a thread on the gluster-users and
            gluster-devel<br>
            mailing lists and see if there's anyone willing to take
            ownership of<br>
            this. I'm certainly willing to participate as well but my
            $dayjob has<br>
            gone more kubernetes than openstack so I have only my
            limited free time<br>
            that I can donate.<br>
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        <div dir="ltr">Amye Scavarda | <a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="mailto:amye@redhat.com" target="_blank">amye@redhat.com</a>
          | Gluster Community Lead</div>
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