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Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2017-08-03 12:43:04 +1000:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:00:22AM -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Excerpts from Dmitry Tantsur's message of 2017-07-29 20:06:18 +0200:
> > > Just to clarify: we cannot land the tox.ini change until the requirements repo 
> > > is actually branched, right?
> > 
> > Good point. The tests for those patches are passing for some projects in
> > CI, but when the patches are landed it will make it a little harder for
> > anyone to run the tests for the branch elsewhere because the
> > requirements repo has not yet been branched.
> > 
> > So, yes, hold off on landing the constraint URL changes.
> 
> I wonder if we should look at publishing the upper-constraints.txt file
> somewhere (other than cgit).  If we did something like:
> 
> tarballs.o.o/constraints/$series.txt
> 
> We wouldn't have an issue when we EOL a branch and the url's hard-coded
> in tox.ini breaking.  queens.txt wouldn't exist until we branch
> requirements but we could work around that with a redirect if needed.

I like the idea of publishing to a branch-specific file that always
stays on the server. We could make the job on master publish both
to a master.txt and a $series.txt file if we need both to exist at the
same time.

> Later we could get really crazy and make a version that took a package
> name and version perhaps like:
> 
> tarballs.o.o/constraints/$(python setup.py --name)/$(python setup.py --version)
> 
> Which would redirect to the appropriate series file.  I think we have
> enough data in openstack/releases to generate those redirects.  We'd
> need to think about projects / repos that don't use the release
> infrastructure.

How would that redirect be used?

> 
> That'd mean we could get way from hard-coding the URLs in tox.ini and
> therefore not need to update them at branch time.
> 
> I've either had too much coffee or not enough.  y'all decide.
> 
> Yours Tony.