[Pulp-dev] Fwd: Status of pulp-python

[Dennis Kliban]

We recently had an opportunity to devote more resources to the Python
plugin. Beta 9 was released earlier today[0]. We are hoping to make a GA
release in the near future.

[0] https://www.redhat.com/archives/pulp-list/2020-June/msg00001.html


On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:45 PM Robin Chan <rchan at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello Christoph,
>
> The Python plugin isn't abandoned, but we have not been able to maintain
> it due to other higher priority issues for other plugins. Our best case
> scenario would be to find a user or users who use the Python plugin and are
> interested in helping maintain this plugin.  We would definitely be able to
> support those efforts including PR reviews and help with coming up to speed
> on how to contribute.
>
> I'd suggest a first step of working with Daniel (Python plugin maintainer)
> to come up with a gap analysis on what you would need from the Python
> plugin for your use cases. We could commit to PR reviews on bug fixes but
> no feature development in the near future (this next calendar quarter
> already planned out commitments.) To be realistic, I would recommend
> someone from your organization know how to send PR for any future
> discovered critical bugs to make this a feasible option. I'm anticipating
> together you may discover some additional efforts like CI/test fixes or
> releasing a new version that may be needed as well since it's probably a
> bit behind on that. Those aren't off the table but I'd support Daniel
> spending some time to figure out where we are with this. Does that sound
> like something you would be interested in?
>
> -Robin
>
> Robin Chan
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> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:18 AM Christoph Höger <
> christoph.hoeger at celeraone.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am currently in the process of investigating the usage of pulp for our
>> company's repository management and think I can fulfill all the
>> requirements except for a pypi mirror. While this is exactly what
>> pulp-python seems to provides it has a showstopper bug:
>>
>> https://pulp.plan.io/issues/5452
>>
>> which appears to be the same as:
>>
>> https://pulp.plan.io/issues/5387
>>
>> I assume that I could get one of our python guys working on the matter,
>> if I can refer them to a) someone to talk to about the project and b) get
>> some assurance that this plugin is not dead already.
>>
>> So do you know what the status of pulp-python is? Is it just not very
>> high on the priorities or is it already more or less abandoned? I am asking
>> this, because pulpcore and some other plugins seem to have a relatively
>> fast pace. If pulp-python is abandoned we might just go on with deb/rpm
>> support and use something else to mirror pypi.
>>
>> thank you very much,
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Höger
>>
>> Email: christoph.hoeger at celeraone.com <moritz.hilger at celeraone.com>
>> Web: www.celeraone.com
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