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On 04/14/2015 01:22 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Hello! There's been some recent progress on python3 compatibility for
> core libraries that OpenStack depends on[1], and this is likely to open
> the flood gates for even more python3 problems to be found and fixed.
> 
> Recently a proposal was made to make oslo.messaging start to run python3
> tests[2], and it was found that qpid-python is not python3 compatible yet.
> 
> This presents us with questions: Is anyone using QPID, and if so, should
> we add gate testing for it? If not, can we deprecate the driver? In the
> most recent survey results I could find [3] I don't even see message
> broker mentioned, whereas Databases in use do vary somewhat.
> 
> Currently it would appear that only oslo.messaging runs functional tests
> against QPID. I was unable to locate integration testing for it, but I
> may not know all of the places to dig around to find that.
> 
> So, please let us know if QPID is important to you. Otherwise it may be
> time to unburden ourselves of its maintenance.

Kill it.