[ironic][nova][neutron][oslo][sdk][swift][charm] netifaces has been archived

Takashi Kajinami tkajinam at redhat.com
Mon Apr 10 02:52:51 UTC 2023


On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 11:41 AM Iury Gregory <iurygregory at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for looking at it Takashi!
>
> I will bring up this topic with the ironic community during the weekly
> meeting (due to holidays we probably won't have a meeting on April 11, but
> I will add to the agenda and try to discuss in the irc with contributors)
>

Thanks !
Just fyi, among all the ironic repos, ironic-python-agent is the only one
using the library.
It's good that the core ironic is not affected, though IIUC ipa is one of
the key components
for baremetal provisioning so we still need a plan to handle the situation.


>
> Em seg., 10 de abr. de 2023 às 03:28, Takashi Kajinami <
> tkajinam at redhat.com> escreveu:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I recently (actually, this morning) noticed the netifaces library[1] was
>> archived a while ago,
>> because the maintenor could no longer continue Open Source contributions,
>> unfortunately[2].
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces
>> [2] https://github.com/al45tair/netifaces/issues/78
>>
>> I quickly searched the repositories and found some projects which have
>> netifaces
>> in their requirements.txt . We might need to look for alternatives (or
>> offer to maintain
>> the project, which is always the best) before we face any problems caused
>> by
>> that unmaintained library.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Takashi Kajinami
>>
>
>
> --
> *Att[]'s*
>
> *Iury Gregory Melo Ferreira *
> *MSc in Computer Science at UFCG*
> *Ironic PTL *
> *Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat Brazil*
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