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

Flavio Percoco flavio at redhat.com
Wed Nov 13 21:16:07 UTC 2013


On 13/11/13 12:49 -0800, Joe Gordon wrote:
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>On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com>
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>    On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 1:07 AM, Zhongyue Luo <zhongyue.nah at intel.com>
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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.
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>        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.
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>        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.


Yeah, plus we should've let this discussion warm up a little bit more.
My bad there.

Revert patch here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/56286/


Cheers,
FF

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