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  Alex Meade wrote:

> +1 to everything Russell just said and of course Blueprints for this. One for #3 (changing from mox -> Mock) would be good so that anyone who is bored or finds this urgent can collaborate. Also, we need to make sure reviewers are aware (Hopefully they are reading this).
> 
> -Alex

I have created a blueprint for Nova:

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/mox-to-mock-conversion

Our team has some spare cycles, so we can work on that.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Russell Bryant" <rbryant at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2013 2:45pm
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Usage of mox through out the Openstack project.
> 
> On 07/24/2013 02:32 PM, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 14:12 -0400, Chuck Short wrote:
> >> 1. Change mox usage to more python3 friendly such as mock.
> >> (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock/1.0.1). However this will cause
> >> alot of code churn in the projects as we move away from mox to mock.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2. Use the python3 fork called pymox
> >> (https://github.com/emonty/pymox). This project has reasonable
> >> compatibility with mox and is python3 compatible. Using this option
> >> causes less code churn. IMHO this would be the better option.
> > 
> > My personal preference is that we move to mock; I think it is a better
> > methodology, and I like its features.
> > 
> 
> That's fine with me if everyone feels that way.  I'm afraid it's not a
> quick move because of how much we're using mox.  A practical approach
> would probably be:
> 
> 1) Prefer mock for new tests.
> 
> 2) Use suggestion #2 above to mitigate the Python 3 concern.
> 
> 3) Convert tests to mock over time, opportunistically, as tests are
> being updated anyway.  (Or if someone *really* wants to take this on as
> a project ...)
> 
> -- 
> Russell Bryant

Roman Bogorodskiy
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