Open Stack

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 10:16 -0500, Monty Taylor wrote:
> > On 08/03/2012 09:57 AM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 17:48 +0300, Gary Kotton wrote:
> > >> Will you also be fixing the pep8 issues in the common code?
> > >
> > > When the pep8 running in openstack-common reports the issue, yes, it
> > > will make sense to fix it.  Since I have already synchronized nova and
> > > glance, I'm highly reluctant to make the necessary change.  I'll also
> > > point out that the particular condition that pep8 is reporting here is
> > > all over the place in nova and probably also in glance…
> >
> > If we keep openstack-common testing against latest pep8 (even when it's
> > a pita) it should allow us to drop that code into any of the projects
> > without worrying about which version they've caught up to.
>
> Yeah, I'm fine with us using latest pep8.
>
> > Also - I hear that one of these days we're going to make a library out
> > of openstack common ... how's that coming Mark?
>
> There are two parts - figuring out which APIs are ready for the
> backwards compat commitment and sorting out the pure mechanics of doing
> the library release.
>
> I was mostly blocked on the first part and this week took a look at the
> RPC API to see if it's ready:
>
>   https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-common/+spec/rpc-api-review
>
> The summary from a first review is that it's not too far away, but does
> need more work. Just doing a thorough review is pretty time consuming,
> though, nevermind fixing the issues themselves.
>
> Talking it over with Russell, we thought it might make sense to tackle
> the second part of the problem first - if e.g. we're happy with the
> state of cfg, we could do an initial library release with just that and
> be happy we have the mechanics sorted out. Then we can iterate through
> reviews of the other APIs and add them to future releases.
>

Are we still planning to have a single monolithic library? I would really
like for us to consider releasing smaller reusable chunks that might be
usable/useful in projects other than OpenStack.

Doug
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