[openstack-dev] Last sync from oslo-incubator

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 12:44:26 UTC 2015


Hear Hear! Thierry. Many many thanks to everyone who made this possible.

-- Dims

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>> A long time ago, oslo-incubator had a lot of code, we have made most
>> of the code to oslo.* libraries. There's very little code left and
>> we'd like to stop hosting common code in oslo-incubator repository. We
>> encourage everyone to adopt the code they have in their repos under
>> openstack/common into their own namespace/packaging as we will be
>> getting rid of any remaining python modules in oslo-incubator.
>> [...]
>
> So this is pretty funny, since oslo-incubator was actually created
> exactly 3 years ago today. Three years ago we clearly stated that common
> code between OpenStack projects should ultimately become libraries and
> no longer be copy-pasted. It took us 3 years to get to the point where
> almost all the code has been graduated.
>
> Some would say it's a long time, but considering this is a
> cross-project, technical-debt-reduction effort that typically falls
> short of resources in a tragedy of the commons, I prefer to see it as a
> great achievement for us as a community.
>
> Thanks to all the people that drove Oslo from where it was to where it
> is today, including (but not limited to) Mark McLoughlin, Doug Hellmann
> and Davanum Srinivas.
>
> --
> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>
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