[openstack-dev] Cookiecutter repo for ease in making new projects

Michael Basnight mbasnight at gmail.com
Fri Sep 13 05:45:49 UTC 2013



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On Sep 12, 2013, at 10:20 PM, John Griffith <john.griffith at solidfire.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:
>> Hey everybody!
>> 
>> You know how, when you want to make a new project, you basically take an
>> existing one, like nova, copy files, and then start deleting? Nobody
>> likes that.
>> 
>> Recently, cookiecutter came to my attention, so we put together a
>> cookiecutter repo for openstack projects to make creating a new one easier:
>> 
>> https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-dev/cookiecutter
>> 
>> It's pretty easy to use. First, install cookiecutter:
>> 
>> sudo pip install cookiecutter
>> 
>> Next, tell cookiecutter you'd like to create a new project based on the
>> openstack template:
>> 
>> cookiecutter git://git.openstack.org/openstack-dev/cookiecutter.git
>> 
>> Cookiecutter will then ask you three questions:
>> 
>> a) What repo groups should it go in? (eg. openstack, openstack-infra,
>> stackforge)
>> b) What is the name of the repo? (eg. mynewproject)
>> c) What is the project's short description? (eg. "OpenStack Wordpress as
>> a Service")
>> 
>> And boom, you'll have a directory all set up with your new project ready
>> and waiting for a "git init ; git add . ; git commit"
>> 
>> Hope this helps folks out - and we'll try to keep it up to date with
>> things that become "best practices" - patches welcome on that front.
>> 
>> Monty
>> 
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> 
> Nice!!  Just took it for a spin, worked great!
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