On Tue, 19 May 2020 12:35:08 +0200 Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote:
> On 5/19/20 12:52 AM, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > (Updating the CC list) > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:40:27AM -0500, Eric Evans wrote: > >>>> If it's going to move, might I suggest maintaining it within the > >>>> cloud-team instead? Among other things, the cloud team has an > >>>> interest in providing feature updates to cloud-oriented > >>>> packages, such as python-boto, in stable point releases. Having > >>>> the team maintain these packages, as we do with other packages > >>>> such as cloud-init, would help us with this goal. > >> > >> I agree; cloud-team seems like the best fit > > > > The cloud team is now maintaining the python-boto source package. I > > think it similar makes sense for the team to maintain python-boto3 > > as well. Do people agree that this makes sense? > > I agree, except I'm not sure if boto3 is still a thing these days. If > I'm not mistaking, it used to be a fork for supporting Py3, but now, > boto itself supports it. Can someone confirm what I'm saying as I am > not 100% sure of that? Nope, boto3 is a high-level library on top of botocore. It's widely used nowadays. Never used boto myself, but SO says: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32322503/what-is-the-difference-between-the-aws-boto-and-boto3 > The boto package is the hand-coded Python library that has been > around since 2006. It is very popular and is fully supported by AWS > but because it is hand-coded and there are so many services available > (with more appearing all the time) it is difficult to maintain. > > So, boto3 is a new version of the boto library based on botocore. All > of the low-level interfaces to AWS are driven from JSON service > descriptions that are generated automatically from the canonical > descriptions of the services. So, the interfaces are always correct > and always up to date. There is a resource layer on top of the > client-layer that provides a nicer, more Pythonic interface. > > The boto3 library is being actively developed by AWS and is the one I > would recommend people use if they are starting new development. -- Best regards, Alexander Gerasiov Contacts: e-mail: a...@gerasiov.net WWW: https://gerasiov.net TG/Skype: gerasiov PGP fingerprint: 04B5 9D90 DF7C C2AB CD49 BAEA CA87 E9E8 2AAC 33F1