Hello,
The opendev/gear is a pure python implementation of the Gearman protocol, written for Zuul 2.x. The project has a few pending changes that could use a final approval, one is required to unbreak the CI jobs.
I am interested in helping on the maintenance, though I don't know which process I can start to eventually be blessed with W+1 rights on this repository. I will be more than happy to help on that front.
Meanwhile, here is a summary of the changes that could certainly be approved immediately:
"use python3 as context for build-python-release" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/742165/
Without it, the job fails for all proposed change. The same fix has been made to Zuul via https://review.opendev.org/#/c/742761/
"Bump crypto requirement to accommodate security standards" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/742117/
Raise the RSA security certificate bits from 1024 to 2048 and sign the key with sha256 instead of sha1. Without it, it seems pyOpenSSL complains the key is too small and the hash system too weak.
"wakeConnections: Randomize connections before scanning them" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/747119/
That is an issue we had for a while at Wikimedia, the server wakes connection in the order they get registered. The connection that registered first ends up executing way more work than the last registered one. By shuffling the list of connections before waking them up, that helps spreading the load.
"Modify connection timeout process" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/531059/
Resolves a potential deadlock, a connection timeout would not release the connection lock.
"Move handleDisconnect into BaseClientServer" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/714709/
Really a noop, it is just moving a method to the parent class which is the sole use of it.
"Added Docker image builds" https://review.opendev.org/#/c/688446/
Generates a Docker image to run the gear daemon.
cheers,