On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Le mardi 8 avril 2014, 10:05:31 Doug Hellmann a écrit : >> > The openstack.common module also known as "Oslo Incubator" or "OpenStack >> > Common Libraries" has 44 dependencies. IMO we reach a point where it >> > became >> > too huge. Would it be possible to split it into smaller parts and >> > distribute it on PyPI with a stable API? I don't know Olso Incubator >> > enough to suggest the best granularity. A hint can be the number of >> > dependencies. >> >> Yes, as others have pointed out we will be doing this in Juno. See >> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo/JunoGraduationPlans > > I talk with Julien Danjou on Hangout. He explained me the origins of the code > and that everyone knows that Oslo Incubator can be improved, and even how it > can be improved, but this project always lacks workforce. Good news! I'm > interested to help to enhance Olso Incubator!
Excellent! Besides the IRC channel that Ben mentioned, you may want to watch for the "[oslo]" topic on this mailing list, especially if you are already filtering messages into folders. Doug > >> That may make sense for your new function. I think there are some >> other things in timeutils that don't make sense to upstream. The >> isotime() and parse_isotime() functions are relatively simple wrappers >> around existing functions that give us consistent timestamps across >> projects, for example. Those are useful to us as OpenStack developers, >> but I'm not sure they're useful to anyone else as written. > > I now understood that each submodule, or even each function, of Olso Incubator > should be audited to check if it is still used, if it should be removed, if it > should move "upstream", or if a module can be distributed separatly on the > Python Cheeseshop (PyPI). > > Sorry, I was not aware of the "Oslo Juno Library Graduation Plan", I will read > it! > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo/JunoGraduationPlans > > Victor _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
