Eventlet retirement
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Description
SUMMARY
As reported by @cognifloyd in slack: the eventlet team has announced their intention to retire the project. https://github.com/eventlet/eventlet?tab=readme-ov-file#warning This will have significant implications for the StackStorm project as the code base is architected and designed around eventlet and the synchronous programming model.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the Eventlet retirement warning linked in the issue, then inventory StackStorm's Python codebase for dependencies on eventlet and its synchronous programming model. The payload names no files, tests, or entry points, and does not define a completion condition.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100