Open Stack

On Sep 5, 2014, at 11:13 PM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

>> From: Doug Hellmann [doug at doughellmann.com]
>> The zmq driver in oslo.messaging, used for internal communication
>> between OpenStack services, has been without a maintainer for a
>> significant period of time. It isn’t actively tested, and it isn’t
>> clear whether or not it works. The Oslo team would like to drop
>> support for it in Kilo, but before we do that we would like to find
>> out if (a) anyone uses it and (b) if any of those people would like to
>> contribute to maintaining it.
> 
> Why not just break it out into a separate repo? It would still be
> loadable via stevedore. This would let people keep using it if they
> desire (and, more importantly, maintain it externally) vs. the all-or-
> nothing inclusion/exclusion decision.

If a maintainer is found, we can extract the files or resurrect them in place at any point in the future.

Doug