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On 11/20/2013 02:06 AM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:

> I faced some social problems in community.
>
> We started working on purge engine for DB (before HK summit)
>
> This is very important, because at this moment we don't have any working
> way to purge DB... so admins should make it by hand.
>
>
> And we made this BP (in october)
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/db-purge-engine
>
> And made patch that makes this work.
> But only because our BP wasn't approved we got -2 from Joe Gordon.
> (https://review.openstack.org/#/c/51523/ ) And there was long discussion
> to remove this -2.
>
> And now after summit David Ripton made the similar BP (probably he
> didn't know):
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/db-purge2
> That is already approved by Joe Gordon. (that already know that we are
> working on same problem)
>
> Why?
>
> (btw question about Purge Engine was raised by me on the summit and
> community accepted that)

I discussed this with Boris on IRC yesterday.  When I volunteered to 
write a DB purger at Summit, I wasn't aware that there was already one 
actively in progress.  (So many patches around the end of Havana.)  When 
I went to file a blueprint and noticed the existing db-purge blueprint, 
I saw that its patch had been -2'd and figured it was dead.  But as long 
as Boris is working to actively improve that patch (he's on vacation now 
but said he'd probably have something on Monday), I won't submit a patch 
for the competing blueprint.  Instead, I'll work to make sure Boris's 
code meets everyone's requirements (some that I got from Joe Gordon and 
Phil Day are mentioned in db-purge2), and when it does I'll withdraw the 
db-purge2 blueprint and retarget remove-db-archiving to depend on 
Boris's blueprint instead.

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David Ripton   Red Hat   dripton at redhat.com