1202719 - switch from django-appconf to something else

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Input Graveyard :: Code Quality, defect)

Description

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Fjord uses django-appconf to deal with some of the 12-factor-app bits related to configuration.

django-appconf is no longer maintained:

   https://github.com/jezdez-archive/django-appconf

We should switch to something else.

Comment 1

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

This bug covers three things:

1. write out the requirements we have for a library that helps with configuration
2. choose a library to switch to
3. implement the necessary changes

I need to do the first one. Once I'm done with that, I can pass this off to someone else for the other two steps.

Comment 2

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

I spent some time looking at this and it turns out we don't even use django-appconf. I'm not sure why it's in the repository.

Removed in PR: https://github.com/mozilla/fjord/pull/672

Comment 3

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

Landed in master: https://github.com/mozilla/fjord/commit/ce38113b1f588eb806eacca3d9bfaf3cb2cf0b7b

Given that it's not used anywhere, I'm going to close this out without deploying.