Sounds like a great idea Thierry! Any concrete deliverables you have in mind for this group?
thanks, dims On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 6:07 AM, Thierry Carrez <thie...@openstack.org> wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> IMO, we should, for the Liberty release, get rid of: >> - suds & suds-jurko >> - memcached (in the favor of pymemcache) >> - mysqldb (this has been discussed at large already) >> - cliff-tablib and tablib (not ported to Py3, used only for testing) > > I feel like there is an opportunity for a project team to form around > generally "keeping up with the Python times". In the past we had various > disconnected efforts: Python 3 migration, dependency convergence, > getting rid (or taking over from) abandoned dependencies. > > All those efforts share a lot in common: you have to keep track and be > closely involved with the Python ecosystem at large. You have to see > what is getting abandoned or will never support newer versions of > Python, check out new libraries that could replace things we use, > actively push for those replacements in projects across OpenStack and > generally work to converge on dependencies where possible. You have to > watch upper-constraints and bump to keep up with bugfixes and avoid > falling behind. > > Up to now those were mostly individual efforts. It may be time for a > true horizontal effort to form around those activities and skillset: > establishing an official project team would help coordinate those > efforts and give them some weight. The same way Oslo reduced code > duplication, I can see that new effort result in increasing the > packageability (ew) of OpenStack and serve as insurance against falling > behind the times. > > Thoughts ? > > -- > Thierry Carrez (ttx) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Davanum Srinivas :: https://twitter.com/dims __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
