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Excerpts from Kendall J Nelson's message of 2016-01-04 15:50:15 -0600:
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> Hello,
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>       In brainstorming ideas for talks at the upcoming summit, I thought
> about some of the things I had worked on for Cinder and what could still be
> improved. One of the things I have been looking into is the generation of
> sample configuration option files. Upon initial research it looks like none
> of the main projects are doing it the same way. I thought it might be
> interesting to get a panel together to talk about how it is done for each
> project, why it is done that way for each project, and maybe discuss a more
> universal approach that could be implemented in oslo and used by all the
> projects. Please let me know if you have knowledge on your project’s method
> and are interested in being part of a panel.
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> If you are interested in looking at Cinder’s approach, here is the patch I
> implemented to make the generation of the sample config file dynamic:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/219700/

That patch is wrong. You should not be redeclaring the entry points in
setup.cfg that are owned by other libraries. You don't own the code
pointed to by the line "keystonemiddleware =
keystonemiddleware.auth_token:list_opts" for example, so Cinder now has
a dependency on the keystone team not moving that function list_opts(),
which is not a guarantee the keystone team has provided.

The entry points in a setup.cfg should *only* ever point to code owned
by the project being packaged by that setup.cfg.

Doug

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> All the Best,
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>    Kendall J. Nelson                                      
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