Feel free to read over this too: http://www.slideshare.net/harlowja/taskflow-27820295
I'm not sure where the video I did at the summit is (still being uploaded??) but that's the slides that I went through in my speaker session. Questions and comments welcome. Sent from my really tiny device... > On Nov 12, 2013, at 5:47 PM, "Joshua Harlow" <harlo...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > > Yes it's still a thing and no it's not being deprecated, I heard other things > from other people at rackspace say the opposite, so maybe u misunderstood > adrian (if or if not rackspace is involved is there choice in the end). > > So yes it's still being actively developed and yes it's gaining traction. I > don't see that traction slowing down. There was a lot if summit sessions on > it that I did so I'm not sure where u heard that it's not active. > > And as for spiff sure can use that also, but IMHO u will come to the same > conclusions I did, that I believe spiff is functionally inferior, your > mileage may vary though. Likely there are use cases for both in the end; feel > free to do your own investigation into what each offers. Spiff to me lacked a > well defined state machine, was to complex and did not have foundational > semantics that taskflow does have (extremely important ones like resumption, > reversion and state persistence...). But feel free to make up your own mind, > it's a free world after all... > > -Josh > > Sent from my really tiny device... > >> On Nov 12, 2013, at 4:35 PM, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> >> wrote: >> >> So I'm curious - is taskflow still a thing? Adrian was saying in HK >> that Rackspace wasn't investing in it any more as another library - >> Spiffy? - was functionally superior, and there is no need to reinvent >> the wheel. >> >> If thats the case, should Mistral be built on Spiffy, and taskflow >> deprecated? >> >> -Rob >> >>> On 12 November 2013 13:56, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: >>> Sounds good, >>> >>> Will do when I get back from HK, still here exploring :-) >>> >>> Sent from my really tiny device... >>> >>>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 10:17 PM, "Monty Taylor" <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Ok. Cool. Let's just put an upper bound on it for now then (mainly >>>> because it's listed as 0.1, so that version to me suggests that it might >>>> still have breaking API churn) >>>> >>>>> On 11/11/2013 07:53 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote: >>>>> I can put an upper bound on the version, that's fine with me. I'd rather >>>>> not avoid adding taskflow to wait until some new preemptive gating >>>>> process is in place. That doesn't exactly feel fair to the people >>>>> creating taskflow or the people using it, especially since people are >>>>> integrating it at this moment and it would be sad for their work to be >>>>> lost due to a requirement line. >>>>> >>>>> As for part of oslo, cc'ing Doug since from my talks with him seem to be >>>>> that it's just a library and to encourage the growth of useful libraries >>>>> the red tape isn't needed (aka, taskflow has no strong ties to oslo and >>>>> I'm not sure it should). >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my really tiny device... >>>>> >>>>>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 7:33 PM, "Monty Taylor" <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> There is a change up to add taskflow to the global requirements. I have >>>>>> no problem with this in principle, but it's one more that's in the set >>>>>> of things like pecan, wsme and friends that are in the set of things >>>>>> that Sean talked about in preemptively gate the universe. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd like to not add it until we have a plan for at least assymetrical >>>>>> gating, so that changes to taskflow at least can't break cinder and >>>>>> friends. >>>>>> >>>>>> Further, I think we might need to discuss how to include libraries such >>>>>> as this. Should taskflow be a part of oslo? >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-Infra mailing list >>> OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra >> >> >> >> -- >> Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> >> Distinguished Technologist >> HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list OpenStack-Infra@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
