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So what is the current status of this? It appears as if it's still broken with
devstack runs at the moment, and it's unclear to me if Mark's patches
referenced below will address this issue.

On May 23, 2013, at 5:47 AM, Zhongyue Luo <zhongyue.nah at intel.com> wrote:

> Guess I was wrong again.
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/30250
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/30094/
> 
> These two patches will fix the problem.
> 
> Aaron, I'm talking with amotoki on IRC now about this topic.
> 
> The only solution to what you propose is to merge a patch which replaces all capital group name references and also bumps oslo.config to 1.2.0 together.
> 
> Ping me anytime if you have questions.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Aaron Rosen <arosen at nicira.com> wrote:
> Never mind I see your comment on the patch that does bump the version to 1.2.0a. 
> "Quantum cannot use oslo.config 1.2.0 until all option group references switch to lowercase.
> This is because the group name normalization only happens when conf files are read, not when referenced in code."
> In my opinion I think we should revert the patch or push another patch soon that makes using 1.2.0 possible. 
> Aaron
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Aaron Rosen <arosen at nicira.com> wrote:
> Why don't we bump quantum to use oslo.config>=1.2.0? I don't think duplicating inisets in devstack helps us as in the current state backwards compatibility is broken for existing config files. 
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Zhongyue Luo <zhongyue.nah at intel.com> wrote:
> Here is an example of option #1
> 
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/30214
> 
> We can do this to all capital letter group names and after Quantum replaces all capital group names to lowercase and starts using oslo.config 1.2.0,
> we can remove the duplicate inisets in Devstack.
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Zhongyue Luo <zhongyue.nah at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi team,
> 
> First of all, I apologize to the QA team for not communicating with you.
> I implemented oslo bp cfg-lowercase-group and caused the frustration of Quantum not working well with Devstack.
> 
> Let me first share what I was thinking when writing the Quantum patches to change group names to lowercase.
> As of oslo.config 1.2.0, all group names in conf files will be normalized to lowercase in order to have consistent group name formats across OpenStack projects.
> And since the conf files had to be backwards compatible, the original plan was to normalize the group names when read from the conf files and referenced in the code.
> However, we decided to only normalize group names when read since projects which were using capital group names can fix to reference lowercase group names in Havana.
> And the patch merged in oslo.config
> 
> Now Quantum trunk had to reference group names in lowercase in order to use oslo.config 1.2.0.
> And to ease code reviewing load, I started changing each capital letter group names to lowercase.
> This went well until I realized I didn't consider devstack in gating.
> 
> So here is the solution I propose.
> 
> #1
> To resolve this situation I was planning to write patches to DevStack where it does the same iniset of quantum options in capital letter groups again in lowercase groups.
> That way all gate tests will patch and at the end when Quantum references all group names in lowercase, we can remove the duplicated inisets in devstack.
> 
> #2
> Another solution is for me to send in one huge patch to Quantum which 1) updates oslo.config to 1.2.0 and 2) changes all group name references in to lowercase.
> 
> Sorry again for the confusion. Let me know what you think.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Clark Boylan <clark.boylan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Robert Collins
> <robertc at robertcollins.net> wrote:
> >> So should devstack be doing this? And even if it did, I think this
> >> will break the way Robert is deploying. I think this change may
> >> need some more thought it appears.
> >
> > I believe that is because Quantum still only lists 1.1.0 as a
> > dependency: the gate uses trunk rather than the pip installed
> > dependencies, which means the gate couldn't detect this (assuming
> > 1.1.1 does fix it).
> >
> > FWIW we don't deploy via devstack, but the process is fairly similar:
> > grab trunk, install it with deps from pypi + packages for openvswitch
> > etc, then go : so while there weren't tests to trigger it, my concern
> > is that the gate setup wouldn't detect the problem *even with tests*,
> > because the problem is a requirement file that isn't being honoured
> > due to the gate setup.
> >
> I double checked this by reading the devstack-gate logs and checking
> the projects list at [1]. And as far as I can tell oslo.config is
> installed as a normal dependency with pip from pypi (or our mirror).
> oslo.config would need to be in that projects list for it to be
> installed from source in the gate. So not quite trunk, but it isn't
> 1.1.0 either as 1.1.1 is available and pip prefers to use that
> version.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/openstack-infra/devstack-gate/blob/master/devstack-vm-gate-wrap.sh#L22
> 
> Clark
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