Open Stack

On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 16:08 -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
> Honestly, I see no problem with some helper bash scripts that simplify 
> life for new contributors. The bash scripts do wonders for developers 
> new to OpenStack or Python coding by having a pretty easy and readable 
> way of determining what CLI commands are used to execute tests. Hell, 
> devstack [1] itself was written originally in the way it was to 
> well-document the deployment process for OpenStack. Many packagers and 
> configuration management script authors have looked at devstack's Bash 
> scripts for inspiration and instruction in this way.
> 
> The point Ronald was making that nobody seems to have addressed is the 
> very valid observation that as a new contributor, it can be very 
> confusing to go from one project to another and see different ways of 
> running tests. Some projects have run_tests.sh and still actively 
> promote it in the devref docs. Others don't
> 
> While Ronald seems to have been the victim of unfortunate timing (he 
> started toying around with python-openstackclient and within a week, 
> they removed the script he was using to run tests), that doesn't make 
> his point about our inconsistency moot.

Completely agreed, actually; I was only responding to the comment
suggesting the complete removal of run_tests.sh.  I personally think we
should promote only tox in the various doc files, and reference
run_tests.sh only as a legacy thing we can't fully get rid of quite yet.
(Incidentally, for my testing purposes, I don't care where it is, as
long as it's somewhere; so we could also move it to, say, "tools".  I
don't even care what it outputs, as long as it gives a reasonable return
value; so we could have it print out a scary-looking warning about it
being legacy… :)
-- 
Kevin L. Mitchell <kevin.mitchell at rackspace.com>
Rackspace