[openstack-dev] Can sqlalchemy-migrate-core just be oslo.db core?

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Fri Oct 10 14:07:06 UTC 2014


On Oct 10, 2014, at 6:10 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com> wrote:

> Signed PGP part
> On 09/10/14 23:44, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 9, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Matt Riedemann
> > <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The sqlalchemy-migrate project is basically maintenance mode and
> >> the core team [1] is kind of a weird mix of people - all great
> >> people I'm sure, but I think it's more a team of people that
> >> stepped up when OpenStack took over the project and said they'd
> >> babysit it but it's pretty idle.
> >>
> >> Given we have oslo.db now, and sqlalchemy-migrate is all DB
> >> goodies, can we just have the oslo.db core team [2] own
> >> sqlalchemy-migrate now too?
> >>
> >> Here are the sqlalchemy-migrate open reviews:
> >>
> >> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open+project:stackforge/sqlalchemy-migrate,n,z
> >>
> >>
> >>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/186,members
> >> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/331,members
> >
> > If the oslo.db team wants to participate, that’s obviously fine,
> > but I don’t think we want to just add everyone in bulk. AIUI, the
> > team’s goal is to get the migration stuff in oslo.db working with
> > alembic so we can stop using sqlalchemy-migrate.
> 
> Till that time, we're left with the library used by multiple projects.
> I feel it's hard to get any review in meaningful time for the library,
> so if moving the library under the oslo.db tent will help it move, I'm
> both hands for that.

It is not generally our community’s practice to assign core responsibility for a code base to anyone, especially without asking. Invite anyone to join the reviewer team, but please do not assume that just because there is a team working on database related code they are also interested in working on this code.

Doug

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> /Ihar
> 
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