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On 3/13/2014 4:13 PM, Roman Podoliaka wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> Code from openstack/common/ dir is 'synced' from oslo-incubator. The
> 'sync' is effectively a copy of oslo-incubator subtree into a project
> source tree. As syncs are not done at the same time, the code of
> synced modules may indeed by different for each project depending on
> which commit of oslo-incubator was synced.
>
> Thanks,
> Roman
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Steven Kaufer <kaufer at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> While investigating some REST API updates I've discovered that there is a
>> lot of duplicated code across the various OpenStack components.
>>
>> For example, the paginate_query function exists in all these locations and
>> there are a few slight differences between most of them:
>>
>> https://github.com/openstack/ceilometer/blob/master/ceilometer/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L61
>> https://github.com/openstack/cinder/blob/master/cinder/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L37
>> https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/glance/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L64
>> https://github.com/openstack/heat/blob/master/heat/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L62
>> https://github.com/openstack/keystone/blob/master/keystone/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L64
>> https://github.com/openstack/neutron/blob/master/neutron/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L61
>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/master/nova/openstack/common/db/sqlalchemy/utils.py#L64
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is any work going on to move stuff like this into
>> oslo and then deprecate these functions?  There are also many functions that
>> process the REST API request parameters (getting the limit, marker, sort
>> data, etc.) that are also replicated across many components.
>>
>> If no existing work is done in this area, how should this be tackled?  As a
>> blueprint for Juno?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Steven Kaufer
>> Cloud Systems Software
>> kaufer at us.ibm.com     507-253-5104
>> Dept HMYS / Bld 015-2 / G119 / Rochester, MN 55901
>>
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Steve, more info here on oslo-incubator:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo#Incubation

Welcome! :)

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann