On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:42:06AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:37:51AM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > > On 04/10/2009 06:47 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 02:21:20PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote: > > > > > >>So, in the interest of getting the most useful stuff into the code in > > >>the shortest time, here is a proposed schedule of what to do when. All > > >>of these things will be done before the entire task is considered > > >>complete, but some will be finished 2 releases from now rather than for > > >>the next release. Each of the steps will be committable in their own > > >>right, thus allowing maximum use before release: > > >> > > >>1) implement a live interface driver that is simply a passthrough to > > >>netcf, no parsing/formatting of XML, just a conduit. This will give us > > >>something that can demonstrate the new functionality and be useful. > > >> > > > > > >I'm afraid this isn't really going to fly. The libvirt public interface > > >is defined by C library API/ABI, and the XML format. To provide the > > >guarenteed stability & consistency of this interface across releases, > > >we need to have the XML parser & formatting included in libvirt & used > > >by all the driver impls. > > > > > > Yes. I completely agree. I'm just saying that can't be done by the end > > of next week (isn't that when the freeze for the next release will be?), > > I don't see any compelling reason why we absolutely must have > this ready for next release. I prefer to wait until the code is > more developed than rushing to meet an unneccessary artificial > date. I know this is listed as a Fedora 12 feature, but there's > many months yet before feature freeze for that release, so plenty > of dev time yet. David Lutterkort also doesn't feel netcf is ready to just drop into RHEL 5.4 since it has had near 0 testing... and the network management API isn't much good without netcf. So we need to keep pushing ahead to get this ready for rhel 6 but I don't see a whole lot of point in trying to rush it into 5.4. --Hugh -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list