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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016, at 06:16 AM, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
> I'm working on a fix [1] for bug #1538227, "Failed `nova-manage db
> sync` returns exitcode of 0" [2]. Having done this, I've noted that
> there seems to be no consistent policy around (a) what return codes to
> use (if any), and (b) whether to use logging or printing. Are there
> any guidelines on this in Nova (or any OpenStack project, for that
> matter) and, if not, do we need some? This is important for me as I'm
> adding a new return code to said executable and I've been asked for
> provide some rationale for my choice of code [3]
> 
> FWIW, I think the returns codes don't matter so much so long as they
> always return non-zero for failed/error cases and don't change (without
> good reason) once they do so. I also think output should be done via
> print, per the recommendations of the Python documentation [4], but
> some consitency in output would be appreciated.

I commented on the review as well, but after thinking on this some more
I'm inclined to have it return an exitcode of 1 for a generic failure
and we could later get into splitting the return code based on exception
type or some other distinct property of failures.

> 
> Cheers,
> Stephen
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/289308/2
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1538227
> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/289308/2/nova/cmd/manage.py
> [4] https://docs.python.org/3.3/howto/logging.html#when-to-use-logging
> 
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