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Folks,

It's been over a year since the last commit was made to the ZeroMQ
driver in oslo.messaging.  It is at the point where some of the
related unit tests are beginning to fail due to bit rot.  None of the
current oslo.messaging contributors have a good enough understanding
of the codebase to effectively fix it.

Personally I'm not sure the driver will work in production at all.

Given this it was decided in Dublin that the ZeroMQ driver no longer
meets the official policy for in tree driver support [0] and will be
deprecated in Rocky.  However it would be insincere for the team to
give the impression that the driver is maintained for the normal 2
cycle deprecation process.  Therefore the driver code will be removed
in 'S'.

The ZeroMQ driver is the largest body of code of any driver in the
oslo.messaging repo, weighing in at over 5k lines of code.  For
comparison, the rabbitmq kombu driver consists of only about 2K lines
of code.  If any individuals are willing to commit to ownership of
this codebase and keep the driver compliant with policy (see [0]),
please follow up with bnemec or myself (kgiusti) on #openstack-oslo.

Thanks,


[0] https://docs.openstack.org/oslo.messaging/latest/contributor/supported-messaging-drivers.html


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Ken Giusti  (kgiusti at gmail.com)