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On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 4:27 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> 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       |


If you look for PasteDeploy you'll find quite a few more. I know at
least Heat and Swift don't depend on Paste but on PasteDeploy.

-- 
Thomas