[openstack-dev] [oslo][taskflow] Thoughts on moving taskflow out of openstack/oslo

Dmitry Tantsur dtantsur at redhat.com
Thu Oct 18 07:31:54 UTC 2018


On 10/17/18 5:59 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:
> Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
>> On 10/10/18 7:41 PM, Greg Hill wrote:
>>> I've been out of the openstack loop for a few years, so I hope this
>>> reaches the right folks.
>>>
>>> Josh Harlow (original author of taskflow and related libraries) and I
>>> have been discussing the option of moving taskflow out of the
>>> openstack umbrella recently. This move would likely also include the
>>> futurist and automaton libraries that are primarily used by taskflow.
>>
>> Just for completeness: futurist and automaton are also heavily relied on
>> by ironic without using taskflow.
> 
> When did futurist get used??? nice :)
> 
> (I knew automaton was, but maybe I knew futurist was to and I forgot, lol).

I'm pretty sure you did, it happened back in Mitaka :)

> 
>>
>>> The idea would be to just host them on github and use the regular
>>> Github features for Issues, PRs, wiki, etc, in the hopes that this
>>> would spur more development. Taskflow hasn't had any substantial
>>> contributions in several years and it doesn't really seem that the
>>> current openstack devs have a vested interest in moving it forward. I
>>> would like to move it forward, but I don't have an interest in being
>>> bound by the openstack workflow (this is why the project stagnated as
>>> core reviewers were pulled on to other projects and couldn't keep up
>>> with the review backlog, so contributions ground to a halt).
>>>
>>> I guess I'm putting it forward to the larger community. Does anyone
>>> have any objections to us doing this? Are there any non-obvious
>>> technicalities that might make such a transition difficult? Who would
>>> need to be made aware so they could adjust their own workflows?
>>>
>>> Or would it be preferable to just fork and rename the project so
>>> openstack can continue to use the current taskflow version without
>>> worry of us breaking features?
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
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