[openstack-dev] [neutron] neutron-lib impact

Armando M. armamig at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 16:58:10 UTC 2016


On 24 November 2016 at 05:27, Neil Jerram <neil at tigera.io> wrote:

> But I think a periodic check for a Neutron/neutron-lib-using project (such
> as networking-calico) would still be a decent way of catching such issues,
> wouldn't it?
>

It depends, and it would. There are many factors at play, as Kevin pointed
out.


>
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 12:58 AM Kevin Benton <kevin at benton.pub> wrote:
>
>> The issue we had is different than breaking changes in neutron-lib. The
>> issue we are running into now is bumps in the road when we are removing
>> deprecated things from Neutron that other projects are still using even
>> though they should be using the neutron-lib version instead.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at fastmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> A suggestion would also to setup something like the following:
>>
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Oslo#Periodic
>>
>> Get the users of neutron lib being tested against the latest neutron lib
>> (at least nightly) and seeing if they will be borked by a new neutron lib
>> merge...
>>
>> http://status.openstack.org/openstack-health/#/?groupKey=
>> build_name&resolutionKey=hour&searchProject=-with-oslo
>>
>> Overall be careful with the APIs u expose and plan out how u will shift
>> users from the old API to the new API (without destroying the world during
>> that transition).
>>
>> My 3 cents :-P
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>>
>> Boden Russell wrote:
>>
>> I would encourage anyone working on neutron-lib related changes to have
>> a peek at the recently renovated contributing doc [1] if you haven't
>> already.
>>
>> In particular the 'Phase 4: Consume' section [2] provides some tips on
>> how we see this workflow playing out.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/openstack/neutron-lib/blob/master/doc/
>> source/contributing.rst
>> [2]
>> https://github.com/openstack/neutron-lib/blob/master/doc/
>> source/contributing.rst#phase-4-consume
>>
>>
>> On 11/23/16 12:39 PM, Armando M. wrote:
>>
>> Hi neutrinos,
>>
>> In the last few hours a couple of changes landed [1,2] that caused a bit
>> of a jam in the neutron subproject gates, as they overlapped with
>> another change [3] having impact on the subprojects.
>>
>> This is why it is important to communicate during team meetings and/or
>> ML that patches with potential impact are in flight in our review
>> pipeline, so that we do our best to coordinate the merge process without
>> shooting ourselves in the foot.
>>
>> To bring this back to sanity, I issued a temporary revert [4], so that
>> [5] can land undisturbed. After that, a double revert will be applied,
>> once subprojects have had the opportunity to deal with the aftermath of
>> the other breaking change [1,2] (e.g. [6,7]).
>>
>>  From now on, I'd strongly encourage people proposing/reviewing patches
>> with potential impact (any impact) to err on the side of caution, and
>> take the advised steps to ensure such situations don't happen in the
>> future.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Armando
>>
>> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397704/
>> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397037/
>> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/386845/
>> [4] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/401377/
>> [5] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:plugin-directory+status:open
>> [6] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/401263/
>> [7] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/401355/
>>
>>
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