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Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of 2016-12-02 09:44:40 -0800:
> Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2016-12-02 15:26:40 +1100:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 08:41:54AM -0800, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> > > Keen, Joe wrote:
> > > > I¹ll look into testing the newest version of kafka-python and see if it
> > > > meets our needs.  If it still isn¹t stable and performant enough what are
> > > > the available options?
> > > 
> > > Fix the kafka-python library or fix monasca; those seem to be the options to
> > > me :)
> > 
> > Yup, Also worth including fix oslo.messaging to meet monasca's needs.  But
> > *something* needs fixing.
> >  
> > > I'd also not like to block the rest of the world (from using newer versions
> > > of kafka-python) during this as well. But then this may diverge/expand into
> > > a discussion we had a few summits ago, about getting rid of
> > > co-instability...
> > 
> > lalalalala not listening ;P
> > 
> > Less flippantly, there are a couple of ways to do this but IMO they're not in
> > the best interest of OpenStack.
> > 
> > 1. vendor/fork python-kafka 0.X
> > 2. Stop the proposal-bot from syncing with monasca, thereby allowing it to use
> > python-kafka 0.X at the expense of co-installability.
> 
> Could there be a (3)?
> 
>  3. change the oslo driver to work with the currently pinned
>  python-kafka version?

Isn't the point that the pinned version, 0.9.5, is out of date? The
current version is 1.3.1.

Doug

> 
> > 
> > Fortunately either option is easy to reverse once the underlying issue is fixed.
> > 
> > Yours Tony.
>