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On 11/29/2013 01:39 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> We have a review up (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/58297/) to add
> some features to the notification system in the oslo incubator. THe
> notification system is being moved into oslo.messaging, and so we have
> the question of whether to accept the patch to the incubated version,
> move it to oslo.messaging, or carry it in both.
> 
> As I say in the review, from a practical standpoint I think we can't
> really support continued development in both places. Given the number of
> times the topic of "just make everything a library" has come up, I would
> prefer that we focus our energy on completing the transition for a given
> module or library once it the process starts. We also need to avoid
> feature drift, and provide a clear incentive for projects to update to
> the new library.
> 
> Based on that, I would like to say that we do not add new features to
> incubated code after it starts moving into a library, and only provide
> "stable-like" bug fix support until integrated projects are moved over
> to the graduated library (although even that is up for discussion).
> After all integrated projects that use the code are using the library
> instead of the incubator, we can delete the module(s) from the incubator. 
> 
> Before we make this policy official, I want to solicit feedback from the
> rest of the community and the Oslo core team.

+1 in general.

You may want to make "after it starts moving into a library" more
specific, though.  One approach could be to reflect this status in the
MAINTAINERS file.  Right now there is a status field for each module in
the incubator:

 S: Status, one of the following:
      Maintained:  Has an active maintainer
      Orphan:      No current maintainer, feel free to step up!
      Obsolete:    Replaced by newer code, or a dead end, or out-dated

It seems that the types of code we're talking about should just be
marked as Obsolete.  Obsolete code should only get stable-like bug fixes.

That would mean marking 'rpc' and 'notifier' as Obsolete (currently
listed as Maintained).  I think that is accurate, though.

https://review.openstack.org/59367

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Russell Bryant