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Excerpts from gordon chung's message of 2016-03-08 21:22:11 +0000:
> 
> On 08/03/2016 6:25 AM, Chris Dent wrote:
> >
> > Last summer Lucas Gomes and I were press ganged into becoming core on
> > WSME. Since then we've piecemeal been verifying bug fixes and generally
> > trying to keep things moving. However, from the beginning we both agreed
> > that WSME is _not_ a web framework that we should be encouraging. Though
> > it looks like it started with very good intentions, it never really
> > reached a state where any of the following are true:
> >
> > * The WSME code is easy to understand and maintain.
> > * WSME provides correct handling of HTTP (notably response status
> >    and headers).
> > * WSME has an architecture that is suitable for creating modern
> >    Python-based web applications.
> >
> > Last summer we naively suggested that projects that are using it move to
> > using something else. That suggestion did not take into account the
> > realities of OpenStack.
> >
> > So we need to come up with a new plan. Lucas and I can continue to
> > merge bug fixes as people provide them (and we become aware of them) and
> > we can continue to hassle Doug Hellman to make a release when one is
> > necessary but this does little to address the three gaps above nor the
> > continued use of the framework in existing projects.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> 
> it seems like the main reason there are so many projects leveraging WSME 
> is because everyone is just using Ironic or Ceilometer as the starting 
> point for their APIs. can we officially say to all new projects who plan 
> on copying API logic of Ironic et al.: 'stop'.

Sure. We should probably provide an alternative suggestion.

> 
> what are the viable alternatives out there? Voluptuous, JSONSchema? i 
> apologies, i know this is a question that gets asked every few months.