[openstack-dev] [oslo][barbican][castellan] Proposal to rename Castellan to oslo.keymanager
Doug Hellmann
doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Mar 15 19:29:33 UTC 2017
Excerpts from Brant Knudson's message of 2017-03-15 10:27:49 -0500:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:18 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Julien Danjou wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 14 2017, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > >
> > >> +1 for just pulling it under the oslo umbrella but not renaming it. As
> > >> much as I like the uniformity oslo.keymanager would bring, I think it's
> > >> already adopted well enough we just want to make it clear that it is
> > >> blessed and ok to adopt.
> > >
> > > I don't even get why moving it under the Oslo umbrella is a win.
> > >
> > > What's the current problem people are trying to solve here?
> >
> > It's a governance problem. Basically if the abstraction layer is under
> > the control of the same group as one of the drivers, it's not really an
> > abstraction layer, and nobody will adopt it or develop another driver
> > for it.
> >
> > See Clint's first answer in the thread for a more detailed explanation.
> >
> > --
> > Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> >
> >
> Can the Castellan team be broken out into a new project under the big tent
> rather than having to go under oslo? Oslo as a catch-all made more sense
> before the big tent. Also, I always thought part of the deal of moving
> under oslo is that oslo core reviewers have +2 authority on the repos, but
> it doesn't look like that's part of the proposal here which was a rename
> and now is changing launchpad to make Castellan a subproject under oslo
> (along with some documentation changes).
>
> - Brant
I assumed that bringing it into Oslo would involve adding the oslo-core
team to whatever review team Castellan already has.
Doug
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