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On 09/05/2013 10:17 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'd like to request a feature freeze exception for the final (and
> admittedly the largest) patch in the series of 40 patches to port Nova
> to oslo.messaging:
> 
>   https://review.openstack.org/39929
> 
> While this change doesn't provide any immediate user-visible benefit, it
> would be massively helpful in maintaining momentum behind the effort all
> through the Havana cycle to move the RPC code from oslo-incubator into a
> library.
> 
> In terms of risk of regression, there is certainly some risk but that
> risk is mitigated by the fact that the core code of each of the
> transport drivers has been modified minimally. The idea was to delay
> re-factoring these drivers until we were sure that we hadn't caused any
> regressions in Nova. The code has been happily passing the
> devstack/tempest based integration tests for 10 days now.

When do you expect major refactoring to happen in oslo.messaging?  I get
that the current code was minimally modified, but I just want to
understand how the timelines line up with the release and ongoing
maintenance of the Havana release.

-- 
Russell Bryant