[openstack-dev] Proposal oslo.db lib

David Ripton dripton at redhat.com
Fri Aug 16 14:40:19 UTC 2013


On 08/16/2013 09:52 AM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:

> We (OpenStack contributors) done a really huge and great work around DB
> code in Grizzly and Havana to unify it, put all common parts into
> oslo-incubator, fix bugs, improve handling of sqla exceptions, provide
> unique keys, and to use  this code in different projects instead of
> custom implementations. (well done!)
>
> oslo-incubator db code is already used by: Nova, Neutron, Cinder,
> Ironic, Ceilometer.
>
> In this moment we finished work around Glance:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/36207/
>
> And working around Heat and Keystone.
>
> So almost all projects use this code (or planing to use it)
>
> Probably it is the right time to start work around moving oslo.db code
> to separated lib.
>
> We (Roman, Viktor and me) will be glad to help to make oslo.db lib:
>
> E.g. Here are two drafts:
> 1) oslo.db lib code: https://github.com/malor/oslo.db
> 2) And here is this lib in action: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/42159/
>
>
> Thoughts?

+1.  Having to manually paste code from oslo-incubator into other 
projects is error-prone.  Of course it's important to get the library 
versioning right and do releases, but that's a small cost imposed on 
just the oslo-db folks to make using this code easier for everyone else.

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David Ripton   Red Hat   dripton at redhat.com



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