Open Stack

>From: Doug Hellmann [doug at doughellmann.com]
>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.

Well, yeah, but that doesn't help the operators that have it deployed
already and didn't see this thread.

Their update process will be: 1. install 2. wtf?! 3. scramble. 

>Doug