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Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2016-12-02 15:26:40 +1100:
> On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:41:54AM -0800, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> > Keen, Joe wrote:
> > > I¹ll look into testing the newest version of kafka-python and see if it
> > > meets our needs.  If it still isn¹t stable and performant enough what are
> > > the available options?
> > 
> > Fix the kafka-python library or fix monasca; those seem to be the options to
> > me :)
> 
> Yup, Also worth including fix oslo.messaging to meet monasca's needs.  But
> *something* needs fixing.
>  
> > I'd also not like to block the rest of the world (from using newer versions
> > of kafka-python) during this as well. But then this may diverge/expand into
> > a discussion we had a few summits ago, about getting rid of
> > co-instability...
> 
> lalalalala not listening ;P
> 
> Less flippantly, there are a couple of ways to do this but IMO they're not in
> the best interest of OpenStack.
> 
> 1. vendor/fork python-kafka 0.X
> 2. Stop the proposal-bot from syncing with monasca, thereby allowing it to use
> python-kafka 0.X at the expense of co-installability.

Could there be a (3)?

 3. change the oslo driver to work with the currently pinned
 python-kafka version?

> 
> Fortunately either option is easy to reverse once the underlying issue is fixed.
> 
> Yours Tony.