Hi,

If we go with this proposal (which sounds reasonable), we need to
carefully look at cotyledon's maintenance. It seems to be on life
support by only one volunteer:
https://github.com/sileht/cotyledon/commits/main/

Dmitry

On 6/10/24 11:09 AM, Daniel Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> In the project to remove eventlet from openstack[1], we need to adapt
> oslo.service. The oslo.service project is strongly linked to eventlet,
> so rather than adapting the project, it would be wiser to deprecate it
> and replace it with cotyledon and futurist. The cotyledon project was
> created by openstack maintainers to replace oslo.service. It is already
> used in openstack by the telemetry project, for example. The
> oslo.service project has been created on top of eventlet to offer two
> main functionalities, periodic tasks and workers process management. The
> first feature has been replaced by another library called futurist[2]
> and the second is surpassed by cotyledon. More details in the project
> readme[3] about the difference with oslo.service. I would like to have
> your feedback and opinion on the deprecation of olso.service and it's
> replacement by cotyledon and futurist. In any case, we'll have to adapt
> the project, which is why replacing oslo.service with cotyledon seems to
> me the best solution, rather than having two similar projects doing the
> same thing.
>
> [1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/governance/+/902585
> [2] http://docs.openstack.org/developer/futurist/
> [3] https://github.com/sileht/cotyledon/blob/main/README.rst
>
> --
> Daniel Bengtsson
> Software Engineer
>