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Hey Thomas,

I'm not really a Horizon core dev, but have assisted in Django version
migrations in the past, plus have a little experience with the
openstack_auth code (and need to do some openstack_auth changes soon
anyway).

I'll see how my workload is, and maybe try and work on some fixes for
this, but at the very least would be happy to review or help with this work.

I think the rush to upgrade to Django 2.2 has been put off until the
next release since 1.11 is still an active LTS, but in truth it looks
like it will stop being the LTS before the next cycle... which makes 2.2
kind of urgent.

Let's see about getting this sorted!

Cheers,
Adrian

On 25/08/19 9:55 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Django 2.2 was uploaded to Debian Sid/Bullseye a few days after Buster
> was released, removing at the same time any support for Python 2. This
> broke lots of packages, but I managed to upload more than 40 times to
> fix the situation. Though Horizon is still completely broken.
>
> There's a bunch of issues related to Django 2.2 for Horizon. I managed
> to patch Horizon for a few of them, but there's one bigger issue which I
> can't solve myself, because I'm not skilled enough in Django, and don't
> know enough about Horizon's internal. Let me explain.
>
> In Django 1.11, the login() function in openstack_auth/views.py was
> deprecated in the favor of a LoginView class. In Django 2.2, the login()
> function is now not supported anymore. This means that, if
> openstack_auth/views.py doesn't get rewritten completely, Horizon will
> continue to be completely broken in Debian Sid/Bullseye.
>
> Unfortunately, the Horizon team is understaffed, and the PTL told me
> that they don't plan anything before Train+1.
>
> As a consequence, Horizon is completely broken in Debian Sid/Bullseye,
> and will stay as it is if nobody steps up for the work.
>
> After a month and a half with this situation not being solved by anyone,
> I'm hereby calling for help.
>
> I could attempt to work on this, though I need help and pointers at some
> example implementation of this. It'd be nicer if someone more skilled
> than me in Django was working on this anyways.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>