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Excerpts from Davanum Srinivas (dims)'s message of 2015-11-13 07:44:26 -0500:
> Hear Hear! Thierry. Many many thanks to everyone who made this possible.
> 
> -- Dims

Indeed, as Thierry said, it has truly been a group effort, spanning
many cycles and involving many, many contributors.

Thank you to everyone to contributed, via planning, analysis,
patches, documentation, and reviews, to make the Oslo libraries
real!

Doug

> 
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> wrote:
> > Davanum Srinivas wrote:
> >> A long time ago, oslo-incubator had a lot of code, we have made most
> >> of the code to oslo.* libraries. There's very little code left and
> >> we'd like to stop hosting common code in oslo-incubator repository. We
> >> encourage everyone to adopt the code they have in their repos under
> >> openstack/common into their own namespace/packaging as we will be
> >> getting rid of any remaining python modules in oslo-incubator.
> >> [...]
> >
> > So this is pretty funny, since oslo-incubator was actually created
> > exactly 3 years ago today. Three years ago we clearly stated that common
> > code between OpenStack projects should ultimately become libraries and
> > no longer be copy-pasted. It took us 3 years to get to the point where
> > almost all the code has been graduated.
> >
> > Some would say it's a long time, but considering this is a
> > cross-project, technical-debt-reduction effort that typically falls
> > short of resources in a tragedy of the commons, I prefer to see it as a
> > great achievement for us as a community.
> >
> > Thanks to all the people that drove Oslo from where it was to where it
> > is today, including (but not limited to) Mark McLoughlin, Doug Hellmann
> > and Davanum Srinivas.
> >
> > --
> > Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> >
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