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On 03/14/2016 10:24 AM, Ian Cordasco wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Davanum Srinivas <davanum at gmail.com>
> Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: March 14, 2016 at 09:18:50
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Subject:  [openstack-dev] [all] Maintaining httplib2 python library
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>> Team,
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>> fyi, http://bitworking.org/news/2016/03/an_update_on_httplib2
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>> We have httplib2 in our global requirements and lots of projects are
>> using it[1]. Is there anyone willing to step up?
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> Is it really worth our time to dedicate extra resources to that? Glance has been discussing (but it's been a low priority) to switing all our dependence on httplib2 to requests (and maybe urllib3 directly) as necessary.
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> We have other tools and libraries we can use without taking over maintenance of yet another library.
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> I think the better question than "Can people please maintain this for the community?" is "What benefits does httplib2 have over something that is actively maintained (and has been actively maintaiend) like urllib3, requests, etc.?"
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> And then we can (and should) also ask "Why have we been using this? How much work do cores think it would be to remove this from our global requirements?"

+1.

Here is the non comprehensive list of usages based on what trees I
happen to have checked out (which is quite a few, but not all of
OpenStack for sure).

I think before deciding to take over ownership of an upstream lib (which
is a large commitment over space and time), we should figure out the
migration cost. All the uses in Tempest come from usage in Glance IIRC
(and dealing with chunked encoding).

Neutron seems to use it for a couple of proxies, but that seems like
requests/urllib3 might be sufficient.

In Horizon it's only used for a couple of tests.

EC2 uses it as a proxy client to the Nova metadata service. Again, I
can't imagine that requests wouldn't be sufficient.

Trove doesn't seem to actually use it (though it's listed), though maybe
wsgi_intercept uses it directly?

run_tests.py:from wsgi_intercept.httplib2_intercept import install as
wsgi_install

python-muranoclient lists it as a requirement, there is no reference in
the source tree for it.


I suspect Glance is really the lynchpin here (as it actually does some
low level stuff with it). If there can be a Glance plan to get off of
it, the rest can follow pretty easily.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
http://dague.net