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On 05/09/13 16:51 +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 11:00 -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> On 09/05/2013 10:17 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I'd like to request a feature freeze exception for the final (and
>> > admittedly the largest) patch in the series of 40 patches to port Nova
>> > to oslo.messaging:
>> >
>> >   https://review.openstack.org/39929
>> >
>> > While this change doesn't provide any immediate user-visible benefit, it
>> > would be massively helpful in maintaining momentum behind the effort all
>> > through the Havana cycle to move the RPC code from oslo-incubator into a
>> > library.
>> >
>> > In terms of risk of regression, there is certainly some risk but that
>> > risk is mitigated by the fact that the core code of each of the
>> > transport drivers has been modified minimally. The idea was to delay
>> > re-factoring these drivers until we were sure that we hadn't caused any
>> > regressions in Nova. The code has been happily passing the
>> > devstack/tempest based integration tests for 10 days now.
>>
>> When do you expect major refactoring to happen in oslo.messaging?  I get
>> that the current code was minimally modified, but I just want to
>> understand how the timelines line up with the release and ongoing
>> maintenance of the Havana release.
>
>Yep, good question.
>
>AFAIR we discussed this at the last Oslo IRC meeting and decided that
>re-factoring will wait until Icehouse so we can more easily sync fixes
>from oslo-incubator to oslo.messaging.
>
>Porting Quantum, Cinder, Ceilometer and Heat, memoving the code from
>oslo-incubator and re-factoring the drivers in oslo.messaging would be
>goals for early on in the Icehouse cycle.

FWIW, yes, this is what we discussed in the last meeting.


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