I'd like to propose that TripleO opt out of dependency management by removing tripleo-common from global-requirements.txt. I do not feel that the global dependency management brings any advantages or anything needed for TripleO. I can't think of any reason to enforce the ability to be globally pip installable with the rest of OpenStack.
Two of our most critical projects, tripleoclient and tripleo-common do not even put many of their data files in the right place where our code expects them when they are pip installed. So, I feel fairly confident that no one is pip installing TripleO and relying on global requirements enforcement.
One potential advantage of not being in global-requirements.txt is that our unit tests and functional tests could actually test the same code. As things stand today, our unit tests in projects that depend on tripleo-common are pinned to the version in global-requirements.txt, while our functional tests currently run with tripleo-common from master (or included depends-on).
The changes needed would be (aiui):
- Remove tripleo repos from projects.txt
- Remove check-requirements jobs from those same repos
- Remove tripleo-common from global-requirements.txt
I think we should also plan to backport these changes to Wallaby.
Let me know any concerns or feedback, or anything I might be overlooking. Thanks.