On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 09:24:00AM -0500, Ian Cordasco wrote:
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> From: Davanum Srinivas <dava...@gmail.com>
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> Date: March 14, 2016 at 09:18:50
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> Subject:  [openstack-dev] [all] Maintaining httplib2 python library
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> > Team,
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> > fyi, http://bitworking.org/news/2016/03/an_update_on_httplib2
> >  
> > We have httplib2 in our global requirements and lots of projects are
> > using it[1]. Is there anyone willing to step up?
> 
> Is it really worth our time to dedicate extra resources to that? Glance has 
> been discussing (but it's been a low priority) to switing all our dependence 
> on httplib2 to requests (and maybe urllib3 directly) as necessary.
> 
> We have other tools and libraries we can use without taking over maintenance 
> of yet another library.
> 
> I think the better question than "Can people please maintain this for the 
> community?" is "What benefits does httplib2 have over something that is 
> actively maintained (and has been actively maintaiend) like urllib3, 
> requests, etc.?"
> 
> And then we can (and should) also ask "Why have we been using this? How much 
> work do cores think it would be to remove this from our global requirements?"

+1. We just removed the last bits of it from ironicclient.
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/292498

// jim

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