Open Stack

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:28:19PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2016-11-15 12:20:35 -0600 (-0600), Michał Jastrzębski wrote:
> > I think we could use git submodule in kolla-ansible to download kolla.
> > That would help us deal with gates in kolla-ansible short term.
> > Thoughts?
> 
> The Infra team has _strongly_ recommended against employing Git
> submodules within repos hosted on our Gerrit instance in the past,
> for a number of reasons.
> 
> If your primary concern is about making sure you integration test
> kolla-ansible with kolla, using zuul-cloner to retrieve
> corresponding refs for them in your jobs will provide a much more
> complete picture of both. Your proposed submodule would only allow
> you to test proposed changes for kolla-ansible against merged
> changes in kolla, making it easier to break kolla-ansible when
> merging incompatible changes to kolla and also robbing you of the
> ability to rely on cross-repo change dependencies between both
> repos.
> -- 
> Jeremy Stanley

I cannot agree more with this statement, and recommend working with
openstack-infra per Jeremy's suggestions.