On 6/2/2017 1:14 PM, Clay Gerrard wrote:
Can we make this (at least) two (community?) goals?
#1 Make a thing that is not paste that is better than paste (i.e. >
works, ie >= works & is maintained)
#2 Have some people/projects "migrate" to it
If the goal is just "take over paste maintenance" that's maybe ok - but
is that an "OpenStack community" goal or just something that someone who
has the bandwidth to do could do? It also sounds cheaper and probably
about as good.
Alternatively we can just keep using paste until we're tired of working
around it's bugs/limitations - and then replace it with something in
tree that implements only 100% of what the project using it needs to get
done - then if a few projects do this and they see they're maintaining
similar code they could extract it to a common library - but iff sharing
their complexity isolated behind an abstraction sounds better than
having multiple simpler and more agile ways to do similar-ish stuff -
and only *then* make a thing that is not paste but serves a similar
use-case as paste and is also maintained and easy to migrate too from
paste. At which point it might be reasonable to say "ok, community, new
goal, if you're not already using the thing that's not paste but does
about the same as paste - then we want to organize some people in the
community experienced with the effort of such a migration to come assist
*all openstack projects* (who use paste) in completing the goal of
getting off paste - because srly, it's *that* important"
-Clay
I don't think the maintenance issue is the prime motivator, it's the
fact paste is in /etc which makes it a config file and therefore an
impediment to smooth upgrades. The more we can move into code, like
default policy and privsep, the better.
--
Thanks,
Matt
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