[openstack-dev] Proposal oslo.db lib

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Fri Aug 16 20:04:42 UTC 2013


On 08/16/2013 04:00 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Ben Nemec's message of 2013-08-16 11:10:09 -0700:
>> On 2013-08-16 11:58, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>> On 08/16/2013 09:52 AM, Boris Pavlovic wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> We (OpenStack contributors) done a really huge and great work around
>>>> DB
>>>> code in Grizzly and Havana to unify it, put all common parts into
>>>> oslo-incubator, fix bugs, improve handling of sqla exceptions, provide
>>>> unique keys, and to use  this code in different projects instead of
>>>> custom implementations. (well done!)
>>>>
>>>> oslo-incubator db code is already used by: Nova, Neutron, Cinder,
>>>> Ironic, Ceilometer.
>>>>
>>>> In this moment we finished work around Glance:
>>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/36207/
>>>>
>>>> And working around Heat and Keystone.
>>>>
>>>> So almost all projects use this code (or planing to use it)
>>>>
>>>> Probably it is the right time to start work around moving oslo.db code
>>>> to separated lib.
>>>>
>>>> We (Roman, Viktor and me) will be glad to help to make oslo.db lib:
>>>>
>>>> E.g. Here are two drafts:
>>>> 1) oslo.db lib code: https://github.com/malor/oslo.db
>>>> 2) And here is this lib in action:
>>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/42159/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> ++
>>>
>>> Are you going to create a separate Launchpad project for the library
>>> and track bugs against it separately? Or are you going to use the oslo
>>> project in Launchpad for that?
>>
>> At the moment all of the oslo.* projects are just grouped under the
>> overall Oslo project in LP.  Unless there's a reason to do otherwise I
>> would expect that to be true of oslo.db too.
>
> Has that decision been re-evaluated recently?
>
> I feel like bug trackers are more useful when they are more focused. But
> perhaps there are other reasons behind using a shared bug tracker.

+1

The alternative (relying on users to tag bugs consistently) is error-prone.

-jay




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