[jira] [Assigned] (JCLOUDS-780) Remove vcloud and vcloud-director from jclouds

["Adrian Cole (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-780?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Adrian Cole reassigned JCLOUDS-780:
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    Assignee: Adrian Cole

> Remove vcloud and vcloud-director from jclouds
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>                 Key: JCLOUDS-780
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-780
>             Project: jclouds
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: jclouds-core
>            Reporter: Adrian Cole
>            Assignee: Adrian Cole
>             Fix For: 1.9.0
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> For over a month, we've discussed the fate of vcloud [1]. For example, we've already removed all vcloud providers as they no longer work with version 1.0 [2]. Also users who contact us either run custom forks [3], or also find features they need missing [4].
> Eventhough the replacement code was supposed to be vcloud-director, it has never left labs, and has too much technical debt to continue attempting to support [5].
> A couple stakeholders have offered they may be able to help [6], or encourage vmware to add a new api to cover modern products [7].
> Good wishes aside, the facts remain that we have 2 aging apis, that are unsupportable in current form. Keeping vcloud and vcloud-director codebases limits the project's ability to move forward, so we must drop them.
> Users who wish to continue on either codebase will need to maintain their own fork.
> When it comes time to start vcloud products again, we'll want to start very small, with at least 2 champions, and some means to keep tests passing. If we don't, we'll surely repeat history again.
> [1] http://markmail.org/thread/4p22wkbrd4mncmss
> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCLOUDS-743
> [3] http://markmail.org/message/gxcl37zq2pnn22sf
> [4] http://markmail.org/thread/ligd5sbkmvoo7vdi
> [5] http://markmail.org/thread/s5i6i4nr6f5k5wew
> [6] http://markmail.org/thread/5fav2wa6ylxbqpdy
> [7] http://markmail.org/thread/q4otznoqoygrz64b



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