Open Stack

On 09/19/2014 10:05 PM, Dean Troyer wrote:
> [OK, I'll bite...just once more...because dammit I want this crap fixed
> too.]

It's tough to avoid when I toss you such juicy bones isn't it?

> I know you know this Monty, but for the benefit of the folks who don't, the
> client library situation is a result of them belonging to the projects they
> serve, each one[0] forked from a different one forked from jkm's original,
> without having any sort of mechanism to stay in sync, like a cross-project
> (BINGO!) effort to keep things consistent.
> 
> We may not want a BDFL, but we NEED someone to say NO when necessary for
> the sake of the entire project.  Jeez, now I'm sounding all enterprisey.
> 
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
> 
>>         except exc.Unauthorized:
>>             raise exc.CommandError("Invalid OpenStack credentials.")
>>         except exc.AuthorizationFailure:
>>             raise exc.CommandError("Unable to authorize user")
>>
>> This is pervasive enough that both of those exceptions come from
>> openstack.common.
>>
> 
> If thats from apiclient, I have a guess.  apiclient was an attempt (by
> someone who got frustrated and left us) to build a common core for the
> clients.  However, in many ways wound up being a UNION of them.  And scene.
> 
> I'm guessing that what it actually is is that randomly some things
>>
> return one, some things return the other, and there is absolutely no
>> rhyme nor reason. Or, more likely, that termie liked the spelling of one
>> of them better.
>>
> 
> I like that explanation but this isn't from OCL.  Actually we'd have been
> much farther down the road if we had used Termie's bits a year ago. Whether
> that is a bug or a feature is left to the reader to decide.
> 
> Code speaks, sometimes, so I'm going back to writing some more client bits.
>  Someone come help.

++

I'm looking forward very much to openstacksdk, btw...

> dt
> 
> [0] except swift and glance, both of which were originally in the server
> repo.
> 
> 
> 
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