[openstack-dev] [ALL] Removing generate_uuid() from uuidutils

Joe Gordon joe.gordon0 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 13 20:49:35 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com
> wrote:

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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Zhongyue Luo <zhongyue.nah at intel.com>wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> We had a discussion of the modules that are incubated in Oslo.
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>> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-oslo-status
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>> One of the conclusions we came to was to deprecate/remove uuidutils in
>> this cycle.
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>> The first step into this change should be to remove generate_uuid() from
>> uuidutils.
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>> The reason is that 1) generating the UUID string seems trivial enough to
>> not need a function and 2) string representation of uuid4 is not what we
>> want in all projects.
>>
>> To address this, a patch is now on gerrit.
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/56152/
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>> Each project should directly use the standard uuid module or implement
>> its own helper function to generate uuids if this patch gets in.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this change? Thanks.
>>
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> Unfortunately it looks like that change went through before I caught up on
> email. Shouldn't we have removed its use in the downstream projects (at
> least integrated projects) before removing it from Oslo?
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>
++, good think gerrit has a revert button.


> Doug
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