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Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2015-04-15 15:10:54 -0400:
> On 04/15/2015 01:48 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of 2015-04-15 10:15:11 -0700:
> >> Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2015-04-14 16:54:30 -0700:
> >>>
> >>> It's time to be honest about the level of support that comes with those
> >>> other backends, deprecate the plugability, and move on to more
> >>> interesting problems. We do have plenty of them to solve. :) Perhaps in
> >>> doing so we could get a better Rabbit implementation and make life
> >>> easier for everyone.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think you're right about most of this, so +1*
> >>
> >> *I want to suggest that having this pluggable isn't the problem. Merging
> >> drivers without integration testing and knowledgeable resources from
> >> interested parties is the problem. If there isn't a well defined gate
> >> test, and a team of people willing to respond to any and all issues with
> >> that infrastructure committed, then the driver should not be shipped
> >> with oslo.messaging.
> > 
> > I tend to agree, although it's up to the oslo-messaging-core team to
> > decide what they want to support.
> 
> I do feel like decisions like this need to uplevel from just the library
> maintainers, because it's a think that as a community we need to all be
> willing to stand up and support the way OpenStack works, for some
> definition of that. Otherwise we're going to get into a situation where
> a lot of projects are just going to say: oh, not rabbit, go talk to
> those folks instead. Nothing infuriates people more than support
> telephone tag.
> 
> I don't think that's a situation we want to put the oslo-messaging team
> in, and I don't think it's the way we want to work as a community.

Sure. My point was that the messaging team needs to have a say in
what they support, and under what conditions. It's no more appropriate
for the rest of the community to expect that we'll support everything,
without help, than it is for the messaging team to decide to drop
a driver without having the broader discussion.

So, yes, let's have the conversation and make sure everyone is
involved. Clint's spec is a good place to do that.

Doug

> 
>     -Sean
>