On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.wa...@rackspace.com> wrote:
>> From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] >> On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.wa...@rackspace.com> wrote: > >>>> From: Doug Hellmann [d...@doughellmann.com] >>>> The zmq driver in oslo.messaging, used for internal communication >>>> between OpenStack services, has been without a maintainer for a >>>> significant period of time. It isn’t actively tested, and it isn’t >>>> clear whether or not it works. The Oslo team would like to drop >>>> support for it in Kilo, but before we do that we would like to find >>>> out if (a) anyone uses it and (b) if any of those people would like to >>>> contribute to maintaining it. >>> >>> Why not just break it out into a separate repo? It would still be >>> loadable via stevedore. This would let people keep using it if they >>> desire (and, more importantly, maintain it externally) vs. the all-or- >>> nothing inclusion/exclusion decision. > >> If a maintainer is found, we can extract the files or resurrect them >> in place at any point in the future. > > Well, yeah, but that doesn't help the operators that have it deployed > already and didn't see this thread. > > Their update process will be: 1. install 2. wtf?! 3. scramble. I expect to make a lot of noise about it between now and the middle/end of kilo when we actually remove the driver. As I said it's not at all clear the driver even works in its current state, so I don't know if anyone could be using it as it is. Doug > >> Doug _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack
