[storm] oracle support status

[James Henstridge]

On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Drew Smathers <drew.smathers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Drew Smathers <drew.smathers at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wanted to inquire whether or not oracle support
>> (lp:~kov-alfaiati/storm/oracle-support) was being considered seriously
>> for merging into storm's stable branch.
>>
>
> Doh, I should have searched the list archives before asking this
> question (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/storm/2008-September/000750.html).

I don't think anything has happened on the integration front since
that thread.  I think the current state is that we'd be happy to
review and integrate changes, but don't have time to do
development/testing of the backend.  Pretty much all the Storm apps at
Canonical are backed by PostgreSQL, so that is the backend that most
of the effort goes into.

> Just to let you know, while our project hasn't gone to production,
> we're tested oracle-support in dev an qa environments pretty
> extensively and so far there have only been minor issues or missing
> features which are reflected in patches and bug reports I've opened on
> launchpad (#307516 and #309382).

That's good to hear.  If the test suite passes for Oracle backend,
then it should just be a matter of getting it reviewed and merged.
Have the issues from the previous review been addressed yet?


> Also, off topic, but we're using twisted-integration as well.  So far
> the only issues around twisted-integration have been figuring out best
> practices for avoiding errors with lazy values.  My branch for this
> combination is on launchpad as well
> (https://code.launchpad.net/~djfroofy/storm/twisted-oracle).

That's another branch that has been on the backburner for a while.  I
guess Thomas is probably the best person to determine its status.  If
you are using these branches for serious work, we should definitely
look at what needs to be done to get them into mainline.

James.