Does it make sense that this conversation about the merits of nova-docker be had before the retirement is actually initiated. It seems odd that in the face of empirical evidence of actual use (user survey) we merely hypothesize that people are likely using their own forks and therefore it is fine to retire this project.
As ttx indicates there is nothing wrong with a project with low activity. That said, if the issue is that nova-docker is not actively maintained and broken, then what it needs is contributors not retirement. -amrith > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel P. Berrange [mailto:berra...@redhat.com] > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2016 5:03 AM > To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][nova-docker] Retiring nova-docker > project > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 10:11:59AM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote: > > Matt Riedemann wrote: > > > [...] > > > Expand the numbers to 6 months and you'll see only 13 commits. > > > > > > It's surprisingly high in the user survey (page 39): > > > > > > https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Survey- > Report.pdf > > > > > > So I suspect most users/deployments are just running their own forks. > > > > Why ? Is it completely unusable as it stands ? 13 commits in 6 months > sounds > > like enough activity to keep something usable (if it was usable in the > first > > place). We have a lot of (official) projects and libraries with less > > activity than that :) > > > > I'm not sure we should be retiring an unofficial project if it's usable, > > doesn't have critical security issues and is used by a number of > people... > > Now, if it's unusable and abandoned, that's another story. > > Nova explicitly provides *zero* stable APIs for out of tree drivers to > use. Changes to Nova internals will reliably break out of tree drivers > at least once during a development cycle, often more. So you really do > need someone committed to updating out of tree drivers to cope with the > fact that they're using an explicitly unstable API. We actively intend > to keep breaking out of tree drivers as often as suits Nova's best > interests. > > Regards, > Daniel > -- > |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ > :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org > :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ > :| > |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc > :| > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
