Open Stack

On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:38 AM, Doug Hellmann
<doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 8:02 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
>> Dean Troyer wrote:
>>> I want to open the discussion of an OpenStack Client Tools program
>>> proposal to a wider audience.  It would initially consist of
>>> OpenStackClient and eventually add the existing SDK projects as they are
>>> ready to join. The initial wiki page is at
>>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/ClientTools.  I do want to have the
>>> proposal made before the summit, but not necessarily the TC consideration.
>
> I've been looking forward to this day for a long time! :-)
>
>>
>> Would you take over the Python client libraries as well ? On one hand
>> they need /some/ domain expertise, but on the other I see no reason to
>> special-case Python against other SDKs, and that may give the libraries
>> a bit more attention and convergence (they currently are the ugly
>> stepchild in some programs, and vary a lot).
>
> If I understand the mission of the new Python SDK team, they plan to
> build a new library with more consistency that may eventually replace
> the project-specific libraries. (Maybe someone on that team can check
> my facts there?) If that's correct, then it could make sense for that
> SDK project to fold into a client tools program when it reaches some
> definition of "done".

Yep. Dean and I talked very briefly about this maybe a month ago, and
the python-openstacksdk would fall under this at some point in the
future. The same would likely be true for other similar projects,
e.g., the PHP SDK that is also under way.