[openstack-dev] upgrading WebOb across all projects
Monty Taylor
mordred at inaugust.com
Wed Jan 16 21:42:19 UTC 2013
On 01/16/2013 12:52 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> The last project accepted a patch to use WebOb>=1.2 today, so we are all
> now up to date.
>
> A big thanks to everyone who helped push these changes through,
> including Monty, Dan Prince, Chuck Short, Sasche Peilicke, Eoghan Glynn,
> Brian Waldon, Zhongyue Luo, Sean Deague, Michael Still, Joe Heck, Dolph
> Matthews, John Griffith, Huang Zhiteng, Dan Wendlandt, and Gary Kotton.
> As you can see, this migration took a lot of collaboration, so if I've
> left your name out please forgive me.
Thanks everybody! Getting changes like that across projects is ... fun
... to say the least.
Also - my narcissism is not allowing me to not point out that I'm the
only person in that list who has become a full-on single-name person. I
see this as another step towards world domination. Maybe next I'll get
to star in Evita...
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Doug Hellmann
> <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com <mailto:doug..hellmann at dreamhost.com>> wrote:
>
> The ceilometer team is using Pecan [1] for our next-generation API
> framework. Pecan depends on a newer WebOb than is used by the other
> OpenStack components, so I spent this morning reviewing the
> differences in WebOb between 1.0.8 and 1.2.3 (the latest stable
> release) [2] and what impact those changes might have on nova,
> cinder, keystone, and oslo (the 4 projects where I found WebOb being
> used -- please let me know if I missed one).
>
> Most of the changes appear to be bug fixes and changes that either
> have a backwards-compatible alias, are deprecations that were
> reversed later, or should not have an impact on us because we were
> not using the changed area of the code directly. The only thing I
> found to be questionable is the change to Request.path_info and
> Request.script_name. Those properties are now unicode objects
> instead of str objects, as WebOb is trying to provide better Python
> 3 support. I found a few uses of those variables in comparisons and
> concatenation with str objects, but the casting should work
> automatically as long as the path can be encoded in the default
> encoding, which should be the case as the paths to our API use only
> ASCII characters. All of the unit tests pass when I run them locally.
>
> I have submitted patches against the 4 projects to update the
> version number in tools/pip-requires, without any other code changes:
>
> Oslo: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18885/
> Nova: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18886/
> Keystone: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18887/
> Cinder: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18888/
>
> If anyone else has done similar analysis in the past and come to a
> different conclusion about whether it is safe to upgrade, please let
> me know..
>
> Doug
>
> [1] Pecan: http://pecan.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
> [2] The full release notes for WebOb:
> http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/news.html
>
>
>
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