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A giant +1.

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On Jan 12, 2013 7:32 PM, "Monty Taylor" <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> Once again, we've kind of stalled out on our two-summit old project of
> common requirements across the projects. The initial repo is up at
> http://github.com/openstack/requirements but I think not much happens
> with it because working on it doesn't really get you anything right now.
>
> So I've got an idea for steps to move forward.
>
> Step 0: Re-sync the contents of the files with the new state of reality
> Step 1: Drive updates to the OpenStack PyPI mirror from the requirements
> repo
> Step 2: Configure the Jenkins slaves to only talk to the PyPI mirror for
> pip
> Step 3: Add a step to the pypi mirror creation that pulls packages fresh
> from requirements into a new proposed state of the PyPI mirror, then
> tests all of the projects against that mirror and only promotes new
> packages into if those tests pass.
>
> That's it. Done.
>
> If we do through step 2, it means that before someone can add a new
> requirement to a project, it would have to go into
> openstack/requirements. If we do step 3, it'll trap for things like the
> sqlalchemy 0.8 upgrade issue. It also, as an approach, doesn't enforce
> that projects have to upgrade at any point, because previous versions of
> things will still be in our mirror (we don't purge it)
>
> Also - while you're all thinking about it - I've been considering
> getting the code we have in oslo-incubator setup that makes setup.py
> understand pip-requires and test-requires automatically upstreamed
> (seems like a thing we're not the only ones who would want it) The catch
> - those aren't the filenames most people use for those files. SO - what
> if we (and by we, I mean I, and by I, I mean a shell script that submits
> a bajillion reviews) renamed tools/pip-requires to requirements.txt and
> tools/test-requires to test-requirements.txt? I've already updated our
> mirror creation code to recognize both files. If people are cool with
> that, I can then work on trying to get a patch into distribute that
> would allow for that - which would mean less copied code for us.
>
> Thoughts welcome...
>
> Monty
>
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