Please note: This schedule is for OpenStack Active Technical Contributors participating in the Icehouse Design Summit sessions in Hong Kong. These are working sessions to determine the roadmap of the Icehouse release and make decisions across the project. To see the full OpenStack Summit schedule, including presentations, panels and workshops, go to http://openstacksummitnovember2013.sched.org.
A survey of some of the usability and development challenges faced by Neutron to encourage consensus on how such issues might be best addressed.
Shortlist of suggested issues to discuss:
Usability
Application developers whose primary concern is logical connectivity may complain that the current set of Neutron primitives (Network, Subnet, Port) are confusing. Network engineers may complain that Neutron does an insufficient job of exposing networking primitives. How can Neutron provide better usability for these types of users?
Reliability
Neutron is becoming more feature-full with each release but quality is suffering. What strategies can we employ to reverse this trend?
Complexity
The complexity of Neutron has been increasing as more and more control-plane functionality is included. Should this trend be allowed to continue, or should the role of Neutron be reduced to providing glue between OpenStack and 3rd party networking options?
