Dear Spacewalkers, as briefly mentioned via chat we are planning coding efforts to drop entitlement counting code here at SUSE for the next major version.
As subscription rules are very different in our own products, we plan to remove all Spacewalk counting code and add a new downstream-only module. We acknowledge that this code is probably still used in Satellite but as far as we know it makes very little sense in plain Spacewalk, and as no new Satellite versions are planned it shouldn't hurt to remove some cruft. Moreover, being implemented mostly in the database layer with heavy stored procedure use, this feature is sometimes causing hard-to-debug problems (examples: [1][2]). Is development team willing to accept our patches to drop it and clean up the result? If that is the case we will take care that development is done in an upstream-friendly way and all patches are sent to you via PR as soon as possible. We might also have other contributions on top of this one, but we are still early in the planning phases so we are not sure yet. I will of course keep you updated as development starts. [1] https://github.com/spacewalkproject/spacewalk/pull/233 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063821 Regards, -- Silvio Moioli SUSE Manager Development Team _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-devel mailing list Spacewalk-devel@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-devel
