[ospurge] looking for project owners / considering adoption

Adam Harwell flux.adam at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 13:26:10 UTC 2019


That's too bad that you won't be at the summit, but I think there may still
be some discussion planned about this topic.

Yeah, I understand completely about priorities and such internally. Same
for me... It just happens that this IS priority work for us right now. :)


On Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 07:48 Adrian Turjak <adriant at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

> My apologies I missed this email.
>
> Sadly I won't be at the summit this time around. There may be some public
> cloud focused discussions, and some of those often have this topic come up.
> Also if Monty from the SDK team is around, I'd suggest finding him and
> having a chat.
>
> I'll help if I can but we are swamped with internal work and I can't
> dedicate much time to do upstream work that isn't urgent. :(
> On 17/10/19 8:48 am, Adam Harwell wrote:
>
> That's interesting -- we have already started working to add features and
> improve ospurge, and it seems like a plenty useful tool for our needs, but
> I think I agree that it would be nice to have that functionality built into
> the sdk. I might be able to help with both, since one is immediately useful
> and we (like everyone) have deadlines to meet, and the other makes sense to
> me as a possible future direction that could be more widely supported.
>
> Will you or someone else be hosting and discussion about this at the
> Shanghai summit? I'll be there and would be happy to join and discuss.
>
>     --Adam
>
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2019, 22:04 Adrian Turjak <adriant at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> I tried to get a community goal to do project deletion per project, but
>> we ended up deciding that a community goal wasn't ideal unless we did
>> build a bulk delete API in each service:
>> https://review.opendev.org/#/c/639010/
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/community-goal-project-deletion
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/DEN-Deletion-of-resources
>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/DEN-Train-PublicCloudWG-brainstorming
>>
>> What we decided on, but didn't get a chance to work on, was building
>> into the OpenstackSDK OS-purge like functionality, as well as reporting
>> functionality (of all project resources to be deleted). That way we
>> could have per project per resource deletion logic, and all of that
>> defined in the SDK.
>>
>> I was up for doing some of the work, but ended up swamped with internal
>> work and just didn't drive or push for the deletion work upstream.
>>
>> If you want to do something useful, don't pursue OS-Purge, help us add
>> that official functionality to the SDK, and then we can push for bulk
>> deletion APIs in each project to make resource deletion more pleasant.
>>
>> I'd be happy to help with the work, and Monty on the SDK team will most
>> likely be happy to as well. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Adrian
>>
>> On 1/10/19 11:48 am, Adam Harwell wrote:
>> > I haven't seen much activity on this project in a while, and it's been
>> > moved to opendev/x since the opendev migration... Who is the current
>> > owner of this project? Is there anyone who actually is maintaining it,
>> > or would mind if others wanted to adopt the project to move it forward?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >    --Adam Harwell
>>
>
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