Open Stack

On 03/18/2016 02:34 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 03/14/2016 03:28 PM, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>>> Ian,
>>>
>>> +1 to get rid of that dependency if possible.
>>
>> +1 for any action aiming toward removing *any* dependency.
>>
>> We don't have enough of such actions, and we have a way too many
>> dependencies, with many duplicate functionalities too. Just to name a
>> few:
>> - pecan vs falcon
>> - oslo.concurrency vs lockfile
>> - nose vs testr vs pytest
>> - pymemcache vs memcached
>> - you-name-it...
>>
>> And this isn't even motivated by the fact I maintain lots of packages, I
>> don't maintain httplib2 for example, so I'm not impacted much,
>> especially by this kind of package that don't upgrade often.
>
> Converging dependencies is a bit of a thankless debt reduction job: you
> have to push changes in a lot of projects, and those are rarely seen as
> a priority. It's a bit like pushing for Python 3 compatibility... you
> need to find someone caring enough about it to persist in pushing those
> changes, otherwise it just doesn't happen.
>
> We could have a squad of "convergers" that would define a very small
> list of targets every cycle and push that through.
>

+1 for the above. Have a few people that would come and help here on 
these kinds of tasks and overtime hopefully the list of targets shrinks 
(although likely never to zero).

-Josh