[openstack-dev] [sahara] Discussion on cm_api for global requirement

Zhidong Yu zdyu2000 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 03:07:44 UTC 2014


Hi Trevor,

Thank you for bringing this to the IRC meeting! I agree with you guys'
conclusion. Patch 136697 has been submitted to address it in Sahara
document.

Thanks, Zhidong

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Trevor McKay <tmckay at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
>   at our last Sahara IRC meeting we started discussing whether or not to
> add
> a global requirement for cm_api.py
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/130153/
>
>   One issue (but not the only issue) is that cm_api is not packaged for
> Fedora,
> Centos, or Ubuntu currently. The global requirements README points out
> that adding
> requirements for a new dependency more or less forces the distros to
> package the
> dependency for the next OS release.
>
>   Given that cm_api is needed for a plugin, but not for core Sahara
> functionality,
> should we request that the global requirement be added, or should we seek
> to add
> a global requirement only if/when cm_api is packaged?
>
>   Alternatively, can we support the plugin with additional documentation
> (ie, how
> to install cm_api on the Sahara node)?
>
>   Those present at the meeting agreed that it was probably better to defer
> a global
> requirement until/unless cm_api is packaged to avoid a burden on the
> distros.
>
>   Thoughts?
>
> Best,
>
> Trevor
>
> Minutes:
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/sahara/2014/sahara.2014-11-20-18.01.html
> Logs:
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/sahara/2014/sahara.2014-11-20-18.01.log.html
> https://github.com/openstack/requirements
>
>
>
>
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