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Excerpts from Ben Nemec's message of 2018-09-12 13:51:16 -0600:
> 
> On 09/04/2018 06:49 PM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> > On 9/4/2018 6:39 PM, Ben Nemec wrote:
> >> Would it be helpful to factor some of the common code out into an Oslo 
> >> library so projects basically just have to subclass, implement check 
> >> functions, and add them to the _upgrade_checks dict? It's not a huge 
> >> amount of code, but a bunch of it seems like it would need to be 
> >> copy-pasted into every project. I have a tentative topic on the Oslo 
> >> PTG schedule for this but figured I should check if it's something we 
> >> even want to pursue.
> > 
> > Yeah I'm not opposed to trying to pull the nova stuff into a common 
> > library for easier consumption in other projects, I just haven't devoted 
> > the time for it, nor will I probably have the time to do it. If others 
> > are willing to investigate that it would be great.
> > 
> 
> Okay, here's a first shot at such a library: 
> https://github.com/cybertron/oslo.upgradecheck
> 
> Lots of rough edges that would need to be addressed before it could be 
> released, but it demonstrates the basic idea I had in mind for this. The 
> upgradecheck module contains the common code, and __main__.py is a demo 
> use of the code.
> 
> -Ben
> 

Nice! Let's get that imported into gerrit and keep iterating on it to
make it usable for the goal. Maybe we can get one of the projects most
interested in working on this goal early to help with testing and UX
feedback.

Doug