"Nguyen Hung, Phuong" <phuongnh@vn.fujitsu.com> writes:
> Hi Ben,
>
>> I suggest that we either WIP or abandon the current
>> patch series.
> ...
>> If you have any thoughts about this plan please let me know. Otherwise I
>> will act on it sometime in the near-ish future.
>
> Thanks for your consideration. I am agree with you, please help me to abandon them because I am not privileged with those patches.
>
> Regards,
> Phuong.
+1 for abandoning them, at least for now. As Ben points out, gerrit will
still have copies.
Doug
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Nemec [mailto:openstack@nemebean.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:12 AM
> To: Herve Beraud; Nguyen, Hung Phuong
> Cc: openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [oslo][migrator] RFE Configuration mapping tool for upgrade - coordinate teams
>
>
>
> On 12/20/18 4:41 AM, Herve Beraud wrote:
>>
>>
>> Le jeu. 20 déc. 2018 à 09:26, Nguyen Hung, Phuong
>> <phuongnh@vn.fujitsu.com <mailto:phuongnh@vn.fujitsu.com>> a écrit :
>>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I am apology that in last month we do not have much time maintaining
>> the code.
>>
>> > but if no one's going to use it then I'd rather cut our
>> > losses than continue pouring time into it.
>>
>> I agree, we will wait for the community to decide the need for the
>> feature.
>> In the near future, we do not have ability to maintain the code. If
>> anyone
>> has interest to continue maintaining the patch, we will support with
>> document,
>> reviewing... in our possibility.
>>
>>
>> I can help you to maintain the code if needed.
>>
>> Personaly I doesn't need this feature so I agree Ben and Doug point of view.
>>
>> We need to measure how many this feature is useful and if it make sense
>> to support and maintain more code in the future related to this feature
>> without any usages behind that.
>
> We discussed this again in the Oslo meeting this week, and to share with
> the wider audience here's what I propose:
>
> Since the team that initially proposed the feature and that we expected
> to help maintain it are no longer able to do so, and it's not clear to
> the Oslo team that there is sufficient demand for a rather complex
> feature like this, I suggest that we either WIP or abandon the current
> patch series. Gerrit never forgets, so if at some point there are
> contributors (new or old) who have a vested interest in the feature we
> can always resurrect it.
>
> If you have any thoughts about this plan please let me know. Otherwise I
> will act on it sometime in the near-ish future.
>
> In the meantime, if anyone is desperate for Oslo work to do here are a
> few things that have been lingering on my todo list:
>
> * We have a unit test in oslo.utils (test_excutils) that is still using
> mox. That needs to be migrated to mock.
> * oslo.cookiecutter has a number of things that are out of date (doc
> layout, lack of reno, coverage job). Since it's unlikely we've reached
> peak Oslo library we should update that so there aren't a bunch of
> post-creation changes needed like there were with oslo.upgradecheck (and
> I'm guessing oslo.limit).
> * The config validator still needs support for dynamic groups, if
> oslo.config is your thing.
> * There are 326 bugs open across Oslo projects. Help wanted. :-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Ben
>
--
Doug