Open Stack

On 02/12/13 09:40 -0500, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>
>
>
>On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Flavio Percoco <flavio at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>    On 02/12/13 09:06 -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
>
>        On 12/02/2013 08:53 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
>        So, to clarify, possible flows would be:
>
>        1) An API moving to a library as-is, like rootwrap
>
>          Status: Maintained
>          -> Status: Graduating (short term)
>          -> Code removed from oslo-incubator once library is released
>
>
>    We should make the module print a deprecation warning which would be
>    more like a 'transition' warning. So that people know the module is
>    being moved to it's own package.
>
>
>I thought about that, too. We could do it, but it feels like code churn. I
>would rather spend the effort on updating projects to have the libraries
>adopted.

I was thinking more about updating the oslo module / package without
updating them in every OS project. If people syncs the oslo-incubator
code, they'll pull the warning in as well.

>
>        2) An API being replaced with a better one, like rpc being replaced by
>        oslo.messaging
>
>          Status: Maintained
>          -> Status: Obsolete (once an RC of a replacement lib has been
>        released)
>          -> Code removed from oslo-incubator once all integrated projects have
>        been migrated off of the obsolete code
>
>
>    We've a deprecated package in oslo-incubator. It may complicate things
>    a bit but, moving obsolete packages there may make sense. I'd also
>    update the module - or package - and make it print a deprecation
>    warning.
>
>
>The deprecated package is for modules we are no longer maintaining but for
>which there is not a direct replacement. Right now that only applies to the
>wsgi module, since Pecan isn't an Oslo library.


Makes sense!

FF

-- 
@flaper87
Flavio Percoco
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 836 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20131202/43ceb9ec/attachment.pgp>