[openstack-dev] [all] [api] Re-Reminder on the state of WSME

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Mon Apr 23 12:03:11 UTC 2018


ironic-inspector is using Flask, and it has been quite nice so far.

On 04/11/2018 12:56 AM, Michael Johnson wrote:
> I echo Ben's question about what is the recommended replacement.
> 
> Not long ago we were advised to use WSME over the alternatives which
> is why Octavia is using the WSME types and pecan extension.
> 
> Thanks,
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Ben Nemec <openstack at nemebean.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 04/09/2018 07:22 AM, Chris Dent wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> A little over two years ago I sent a reminder that WSME is not being
>>> actively maintained:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-March/088658.html
>>>
>>> Today I was reminded of this becasue a random (typo-related)
>>> patchset demonstrated that the tests were no longer passing and
>>> fixing them is enough of a chore that I (at least temporarily)
>>> marked one test as an expected failure.o
>>>
>>>       https://review.openstack.org/#/c/559717/
>>>
>>> The following projects appear to still use WSME:
>>>
>>>       aodh
>>>       blazar
>>>       cloudkitty
>>>       cloudpulse
>>>       cyborg
>>>       glance
>>>       gluon
>>>       iotronic
>>>       ironic
>>>       magnum
>>>       mistral
>>>       mogan
>>>       octavia
>>>       panko
>>>       qinling
>>>       radar
>>>       ranger
>>>       searchlight
>>>       solum
>>>       storyboard
>>>       surveil
>>>       terracotta
>>>       watcher
>>>
>>> Most of these are using the 'types' handling in WSME and sometimes
>>> the pecan extension, and not the (potentially broken) Flask
>>> extension, so things should be stable.
>>>
>>> However: nobody is working on keeping WSME up to date. It is not a
>>> good long term investment.
>>
>>
>> What would be the recommended alternative, either for new work or as a
>> migration path for existing projects?
>>
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