[cloudkitty][tc] Cloudkitty abandoned?

Rafael Weingärtner rafaelweingartner at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 13:20:06 UTC 2020


I am not sure how the projects/communities here in OpenStack are maintained
and conducted, but I could for sure help.
I am a committer and PMC for some Apache projects; therefore, I am a bit
familiar with some processes in OpenSource communities.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 5:11 AM Mark Goddard <mark at stackhpc.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 14:43, Rafael Weingärtner
> <rafaelweingartner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > We are working on it. So far we have 3 open proposals there, but we do
> not have enough karma to move things along.
> > Besides these 3 open proposals, we do have more ongoing extensions that
> have not yet been proposed to the community.
>
> It's good to hear you want to help improve cloudkitty, however it
> sounds like what is required is help with maintaining the project. Is
> that something you could be involved with?
> Mark
>
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 10:22 AM Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Posting here to raise awareness, and start discussion about next steps.
> >>
> >> It appears there is no one working on Cloudkitty anymore. No patches
> >> have been merged for several months now, including simple bot proposed
> >> patches. It would appear no one is maintaining this project anymore.
> >>
> >> I know there is a need out there for this type of functionality, so
> >> maybe this will raise awareness and get some attention to it. But
> >> barring that, I am wondering if we should start the process to retire
> >> this project.
> >>
> >>  From a Victoria release perspective, it is milestone-2 week, so we
> >> should make a decision if any of the Cloudkitty deliverables should be
> >> included in this release or not. We can certainly force releases of
> >> whatever is the latest, but I think that is a bit risky since these
> >> repos have never merged the job template change for victoria and
> >> therefore are not even testing with Python 3.8. That is an official
> >> runtime for Victoria, so we run the risk of having issues with the code
> >> if someone runs under 3.8 but we have not tested to make sure there are
> >> no problems doing so.
> >>
> >> I am hoping this at least starts the discussion. I will not propose any
> >> release patches to remove anything until we have had a chance to discuss
> >> the situation.
> >>
> >> Sean
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Rafael Weingärtner
>


-- 
Rafael Weingärtner
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