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Could you put this in the devref?  Or getting started or something so this info isn't lost and new devs will be educated?

Thanks!

--Rocky

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Dague [mailto:sean at dague.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 2:44 AM
> To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [all] FYI - Depends-On vs. backports
> 
> I was checking out where things were at this morning with fixing unit
> tests, and found that a bunch of things were all gummed up in "merge
> conflicts".
> 
> When you specify
> 
> Depends-On: ID
> 
> It requires everything with ID to be in a "merged" state to go forward.
> A change being abandoned doesn't count.
> 
> This runs smack into our tendancy to make the UUID for backported
> changes the same as the id in master (there is no reason we really have
> to do that).
> 
> So the following sequence:
> 
> Fix A in requirements master
> Fix B in nova master (depends on A)
> Backport A to requirements stable/liberty
> Abandon A in stable/liberty
> 
> Just means that B is stuck and can never land.
> 
> 
> It's come up to let things through with Abandon, however Depends-On is
> used to stack up changes across a bunch of different repos with
> different review teams, and who can Abandon and then let changes
> through
> that shouldn't land, gets kind of confusing. Also, if we don't support
> depends on across branches, we can't use it for testing upgrade
> scenarios. So the current edge case is probably the least weird edge
> case that we can have.
> 
> 
> So, in future if you want to use Depends-On in a backport situation,
> you
> need to carefully do your backports so they don't share a UUID with
> master.
> 
> 	-Sean
> 
> --
> Sean Dague
> http://dague.net
> 
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