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On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Joseph Heck <heckj at me.com> wrote:

> Broadening the scope for discussion -
>
> This started as http://markmail.org/thread/7y4xxqn7vxbgj4qo <-- asking
> about moving auth_token into openstack-common. I don't think Mark saw that
> thread, and it was specific to a piece of keystone code, but a more general
> question seemed useful for discussion:
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
> *Subject: **Re: openstack-common question*
> *Date: *August 20, 2012 1:45:18 PM PDT
> *To: *Joseph Heck <heckj at me.com>
> *Reply-To: *Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
>
> On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 13:41 -0700, Joseph Heck wrote:
>
> Hey Mark!
>
> Question that came up from earlier this weekend - what's your line in
> the sand for when something should be included in openstack-common?
>
> The question posed earlier was to move some of the auth_token pieces
> into openstack common - but I think the driving force is that folks
> didn't want to install all of keystone just to get the auth_token code
> that goes into nova, glance, quantum, etc. paste files.
>
> I don't think it's ready or that we want to do that right now, but I
> figured I'd ask to see where you're trying to draw the line for
> inclusion.
>
>
> Basically, if it might otherwise be copied and pasted between multiple
> OpenStack projects, it probably should live in openstack-common.
>
> Seems like something worth discussing on openstack-dev, though. Care to
> re-post there?
>
> Are "the auth_token pieces" the same as the Keystone middleware? If so,
that seems like a good candidate for a stand-alone package. If we have to
pass it through common before we can release it that way, so be it, but it
might be simpler for the keystone team to just split it out and release it
directly.

Doug
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