[Engine-devel] upstream/downstream compat

I've submitted some changes to start some of the work of removing the RHEV/RHEVM names throughout the vdsm code. In one of the patches, there's a good discussion on compatibility with downstream[1] And I wanted to continue that on the mailing list so we could have more eyes; it's not clear to me if everyone is able to see/participate in an inline thread to just one of my patches. To the point; as we look at moving toward an upstream vdsm which may be used stand-alone; ie, it may or may not having ovirt-engine/RHEVM driving actions. I'm interested in hearing details what our requirements for compatibility are and which parts of the tree might be affected. I'd like to posit that downstream compat is the responsibility of the distro versus the upstream community; though that's not a license to make things difficult. IMHO, this means we can do things that help clean up the code or move the project in a particular direction without having to always worry about what the package looks like in a particular distro. The other aspect to compatibility I'd like to hear details/discussion on the interfaces (explicit or implicit) between vdsm and ovirt-engine. I rekindled a discussion[2] on at least one known issue around engine including the qemu machine type in the database; Any pointers to other places would be helpful as I'm wrapping my head around the back and forth between vdsm and engine. 1. http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#patch,unified,3287,1,vds_bootstrap/vds_bootstrap.py 2. http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/engine-devel/2012-April/001209.html -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh(a)us.ibm.com