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On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Ihar Hrachyshka <ihrachys at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hi Kyle/all,
>
> (we were going to walk thru that on Mon, but since US is on vacation
> today, sending it via email to openstack-dev at .)
>
> Great, thanks Ihar!


> So I've talked to Doug Hellmann from oslo, and here is what we have in our
> oslo queue to consider:
>
> 1. minor oslo.concurrency cleanup for *aas repos (we need to drop
> lockutils-wrapper usage now that base test class sets lockutils fixture);
> 2. migration to namespace-less oslo libraries (this is blocked by pending
> oslo.messaging release scheduled this week, will revive patches for all
> four branches the end of the week) [1];
> 3. oslo/kilo-2: graduation of oslo.policy;
> 4. oslo/kilo-3: graduation of oslo.cache, oslo.versionedobjects.
>
> I believe 1. and 2. should be handled in Kilo-2 neutron side. The 2. part
> will introduce some potential friction in gate due to merge conflicts and
> new hacking rule applied, so we may want to synchronize it with other
> refactoring activities.
>
> This looks good to me.


> For 3., I'm not sure we want to go with such a change this cycle. On the
> other side, while that is potentially unsafe, it may free us from later
> patching our local policy module copy due to security issues that could be
> revealed later in the incubator module. Taking into account that we claim
> support for 15 months for all stable branches, and who knows where it will
> lead later, earlier reducing our area of responsibility can be a good thing.
>
> Given the state of our policy code, we may want to look into this one for
Kilo yet. It would be good to get Salv's opinion here as well.


> For 4., this will definitely need to wait for L. The oslo.cache migration
> can easily go with in L-1 (the module is used in single place only -
> metadata agent); as for oslo.versionedobjects, this will need to follow a
> proper spec process (we had someone willing to post a spec for that, but I
> don't remember his/her name).
>
> Does the plan sound ok?
>
> This all looks good to me! I'd like to explore the oslo.policy stuff a bit
more before declaring it out of Kilo at this point though, but lets see
what comes of that.

Thanks,
Kyle


> [1]: https://review.openstack.org/#/q/If0dce29a0980206ace9866112be52
> 9436194d47e,n,z
>
> /Ihar
>
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