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Excerpts from Stephen Finucane's message of 2018-08-02 15:11:25 +0100:
> tl;dr: It seems Paste [1] may be entering unmaintained territory and we
> may need to do something about it.
> 
> I was cleaning up some warning messages that nova was issuing this
> morning and noticed a few coming from Paste. I was going to draft a PR
> to fix this, but a quick browse through the Bitbucket project [2]
> suggests there has been little to no activity on that for well over a
> year. One particular open PR - "Python 3.7 support" - is particularly
> concerning, given the recent mailing list threads on the matter.
> 
> Given that multiple projects are using this, we may want to think about
> reaching out to the author and seeing if there's anything we can do to
> at least keep this maintained going forward. I've talked to cdent about
> this already but if anyone else has ideas, please let me know.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/Paste/
> [2] https://bitbucket.org/ianb/paste/
> [3] https://bitbucket.org/ianb/paste/pull-requests/41
> 

The last I heard, a few years ago Ian moved away from Python to
JavaScript as part of his work at Mozilla. The support around
paste.deploy has been sporadic since then, and was one of the reasons
we discussed a goal of dropping paste.ini as a configuration file.

Do we have a real sense of how many of the projects below, which
list Paste in requirements.txt, actually use it directly or rely
on it for configuration?

Doug

$ beagle search --ignore-case --file requirements.txt 'paste[><=! ]'
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+------+--------------------+
| Repository                             | Filename                                               | Line | Text               |
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+------+--------------------+
| airship-armada                         | requirements.txt                                       |    8 | Paste>=2.0.3       |
| airship-deckhand                       | requirements.txt                                       |   12 | Paste # MIT        |
| anchor                                 | requirements.txt                                       |    9 | Paste # MIT        |
| apmec                                  | requirements.txt                                       |    6 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| barbican                               | requirements.txt                                       |   22 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| cinder                                 | requirements.txt                                       |   37 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| congress                               | requirements.txt                                       |   11 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| designate                              | requirements.txt                                       |   25 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| ec2-api                                | requirements.txt                                       |   20 | Paste # MIT        |
| freezer-api                            | requirements.txt                                       |    8 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| gce-api                                | requirements.txt                                       |   16 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| glance                                 | requirements.txt                                       |   31 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| glare                                  | requirements.txt                                       |   29 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| karbor                                 | requirements.txt                                       |   28 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| kingbird                               | requirements.txt                                       |    7 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| manila                                 | requirements.txt                                       |   30 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| meteos                                 | requirements.txt                                       |   29 | Paste # MIT        |
| monasca-events-api                     | requirements.txt                                       |    6 | Paste # MIT        |
| monasca-log-api                        | requirements.txt                                       |    6 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| murano                                 | requirements.txt                                       |   28 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| neutron                                | requirements.txt                                       |    6 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| nova                                   | requirements.txt                                       |   19 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| novajoin                               | requirements.txt                                       |    6 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| oslo.service                           | requirements.txt                                       |   17 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| requirements                           | global-requirements.txt                                |  187 | Paste  # MIT       |
| searchlight                            | requirements.txt                                       |   27 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| tacker                                 | requirements.txt                                       |    6 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| tatu                                   | requirements.txt                                       |   18 | Paste # MIT        |
| tricircle                              | requirements.txt                                       |    7 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| trio2o                                 | requirements.txt                                       |    7 | Paste # MIT        |
| trove                                  | requirements.txt                                       |   11 | Paste>=2.0.2 # MIT |
| upstream-institute-virtual-environment | elements/upstream-training/static/tmp/requirements.txt |  147 | Paste==2.0.3       |
+----------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------+------+--------------------+