[openstack-dev] [all][PTLs] Stop releasing libraries/clients without capping stable global requirements
Doug Hellmann
doug at doughellmann.com
Thu Feb 12 20:22:11 UTC 2015
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015, at 02:17 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:53 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015, at 07:12 PM, Joe Gordon wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > As you know a few of us have been spending way too much time digging
> > > stable/juno out of the ditch its currently in. And just when we thought
> > > we
> > > were in the clear a new library was released without a requirements cap
> > > in
> > > stable global-requirements and broke stable/juno grenade. Everytime this
> > > happens we risk breaking everything. While there is a good long term fix
> > > in
> > > progress (pin all of stable/juno
> > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147451/),
> > > this will take a bit of time to get right and land.
> > >
> > > The good news is there is a nice easy interim solution. Before releasing
> > > a
> > > new library go to stable/juno and stable/icehouse global requirements and
> > > check if $library has a version cap, if not add one. And once that lands
> > > go
> > > ahead and release your library. For example:
> > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/154715/2
> > >
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> > The Oslo team has several libraries we're holding for release until this
> > is resolved. We do have projects blocked on those releases, though, so
> > if Joe asks you for help with anything related to stable branch
> > maintenance, please make it a priority so we can get the caps in place.
> >
> >
> We have landed the patch to cap all stable/juno requirements that are
> installed in a tempest-dsvm-neutron-full job. So we should be out of the
> woods for now (unless you are a project that uses one of the still
> uncapped
> requirements).
Kudos to Joe and Matt for their time this week. Thank you.
It's Thursday, so we're outside of the Oslo team's release window, so we
will continue to hold our releases until next week. Expect several new
library versions on Monday and Tuesday.
Doug
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/147451/
>
>
> Implications:
>
> * Until Dean's patches to install CLI tools (python-*clients) inside of
> venvs, we are not testing master clients with stable/juno.
> * An indirect dependency can change and still break us, but hopefully
> this
> won't happen.
>
>
> > Doug
> >
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