Excerpts from gordon chung's message of 2016-03-08 21:22:11 +0000: > > On 08/03/2016 6:25 AM, Chris Dent wrote: > > > > Last summer Lucas Gomes and I were press ganged into becoming core on > > WSME. Since then we've piecemeal been verifying bug fixes and generally > > trying to keep things moving. However, from the beginning we both agreed > > that WSME is _not_ a web framework that we should be encouraging. Though > > it looks like it started with very good intentions, it never really > > reached a state where any of the following are true: > > > > * The WSME code is easy to understand and maintain. > > * WSME provides correct handling of HTTP (notably response status > > and headers). > > * WSME has an architecture that is suitable for creating modern > > Python-based web applications. > > > > Last summer we naively suggested that projects that are using it move to > > using something else. That suggestion did not take into account the > > realities of OpenStack. > > > > So we need to come up with a new plan. Lucas and I can continue to > > merge bug fixes as people provide them (and we become aware of them) and > > we can continue to hassle Doug Hellman to make a release when one is > > necessary but this does little to address the three gaps above nor the > > continued use of the framework in existing projects. > > > > Ideas? > > > > it seems like the main reason there are so many projects leveraging WSME > is because everyone is just using Ironic or Ceilometer as the starting > point for their APIs. can we officially say to all new projects who plan > on copying API logic of Ironic et al.: 'stop'.
Sure. We should probably provide an alternative suggestion. > > what are the viable alternatives out there? Voluptuous, JSONSchema? i > apologies, i know this is a question that gets asked every few months. __________________________________________________________________________ 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
