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On 16/03/17 12:43 -0400, Davanum Srinivas wrote:
>+1 from me to bring castellan under Oslo governance with folks from
>both oslo and Barbican as reviewers without a project rename. Let's
>see if that helps get more adoption of castellan

This sounds like a great path forward! +1

Flavio

>Thanks,
>Dims
>
>On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:25 PM, Farr, Kaitlin M.
><Kaitlin.Farr at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
>> This thread has generated quite the discussion, so I will try to
>> address a few points in this email, echoing a lot of what Dave said.
>>
>> Clint originally explained what we are trying to solve very well. The hope was
>> that the rename would emphasize that Castellan is just a basic
>> interface that supports operations common between key managers
>> (the existing Barbican back end and other back ends that may exist
>> in the future), much like oslo.db supports the common operations
>> between PostgreSQL and MySQL. The thought was that renaming to have
>> oslo part of the name would help reinforce that it's just an interface,
>> rather than a standalone key manager. Right now, the only Castellan
>> back end that would work in DevStack is Barbican. There has been talk
>> in the past for creating other Castellan back ends (Vault or Tang), but
>> no one has committed to writing the code for those yet.
>>
>> The intended proposal was to rename the project, maintain the current
>> review team (which is only a handful of Barbican people), and bring on
>> a few Oslo folks, if any were available and interested, to give advice
>> about (and +2s for) OpenStack library best practices. However, perhaps
>> pulling it under oslo's umbrella without a rename is blessing it enough.
>>
>> In response to Julien's proposal to make Castellan "the way you can do
>> key management in Python" -- it would be great if Castellan were that
>> abstract, but in practice it is pretty OpenStack-specific. Currently,
>> the Barbican team is great at working on key management projects
>> (including both Barbican and Castellan), but a lot of our focus now is
>> how we can maintain and grow integration with the rest of the OpenStack
>> projects, for which having the name and expertise of oslo would be a
>> great help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kaitlin
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