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Folks,

It was decided at the oslo.messaging forum at summit that the pika
driver will be marked as deprecated [1] for removal.

The pika driver is another rabbitmq-based driver.  It was developed as
a replacement for the current rabbit driver (rabbit://).  The pika
driver is based on the 'pika' rabbitmq client library [2], rather than
the kombu library [3] of the current rabbitmq driver.  The pika
library was recommended by the rabbitmq community a couple of summits
ago as a better client than the kombu client.

However, testing done against this driver did not show "appreciable
difference in performance or reliability" over the existing rabbitmq
driver.

Given this, and the recent departure of some very talented
contributors, the consensus is to deprecate pika and recommend users
stay with the original rabbitmq driver.

The plan is to mark the driver as deprecated in Pike, removal in Rocky.

thanks,


[1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS_Forum_Oslo.Messaging_driver_recommendations
  (~ line 80)
[2] https://github.com/pika/pika
[3] https://github.com/celery/kombu

-- 
Ken Giusti  (kgiusti at gmail.com)