[openstack-dev] [tc] supporting Go

Davanum Srinivas davanum at gmail.com
Wed May 4 13:01:45 UTC 2016


On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Hayes, Graham's message of 2016-05-03 23:29:11 +0000:
>> On 03/05/2016 17:03, John Dickinson wrote:
>> > TC,
>> >
>> > In reference to http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/093680.html and Thierry's reply, I'm currently drafting a TC resolution to update http://governance.openstack.org/resolutions/20150901-programming-languages.html to include Go as a supported language in OpenStack projects.
>> >
>> > As a starting point, what would you like to see addressed in the document I'm drafting?
>> >
>> > --John
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Great - I was about to write a thread like this :)
>>
>> Designate is looking to move a single component of ours to Go - and we
>> were wondering what was the best way to do it.
>>
>> The current policy does allow for the TC to bless different languages
>> on a case by case basis - do we need to go from just python and JS to
>> allowing all projects to use go, or should the TC approve (or
>> disapprove) the swift and designate requests?
>>
>> I think the swift and designate changes might be a good test case to
>> see how the build / mirroring / packaging / artifact / library issues
>> shake out.
>
> Indeed, having 2 cases will help avoid baking any project-specific
> assumptions into the testing and build interfaces. I hope the Designate
> and Swift teams can work together to identify and document the necessary
> interfaces.

Guessing that Dependency Management will be a hot topic:
http://peter.bourgon.org/go-in-production/#dependency-management

Thanks,
Dims

>
> Doug
>
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