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-----Original Message-----
From: Cory Benfield <cory at lukasa.co.uk>
Reply: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Date: March 18, 2016 at 13:06:02
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
Subject:  Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Maintaining httplib2 python library

>  
> > On 18 Mar 2016, at 17:05, Doug Wiegley wrote:
> >> On Mar 18, 2016, at 8:31 AM, Cory Benfield wrote:
> >>
> >> Getting requests to talk over a Unix domain socket is not particularly tricky, and  
> there are third-party libraries that hook into requests appropriately to make that  
> happen. For example, the requests-unixsocket module exists that can do the appropriate  
> things.
> >
> > That’s the module that I was eyeing, but we’re just trading one dependency for another.  
> Is there something about httplib2 maintenance in particular that makes us want that  
> gone?
> >
> > doug
>  
> The original message in this thread was about the fact that httplib2 is currently unmaintained  
> and looking for new maintainers. I believe that was the impetus for the discussion.

Unrelatedly, the author hasn't responded to either email or twitter. I've offered to help keep it on life support but they've not responded. So perhaps they're not interested in adding maintainers after all.

Either way, it's likely a dying project and not one we should hold onto.

But I mean, ignoring that it's dying, it's a great piece of software.

--  
Ian Cordasco