Open Stack

On Sep 6, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Sandy Walsh <sandy.walsh at RACKSPACE.COM> wrote:

>> 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. 

I expect to make a lot of noise about it between now and the middle/end of kilo when we actually remove the driver. As I said it's not at all clear the driver even works in its current state, so I don't know if anyone could be using it as it is.

Doug

> 
>> Doug