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Excerpts from Sean Dague's message of 2017-06-12 07:09:12 -0400:
> On 06/11/2017 11:30 AM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > The recent thread about updating the pylint version in
> > global-requirements.txt raised an issue because it was trying to
> > update the pylint version for all projects using it, but some teams
> > were not ready for the new tests in the latest version. I thought
> > we had dealt with that kind of case in the past by treating linter
> > projects like pylint and flake8 as special cases, and leaving them
> > out of the global requirements list. The requirements repo has a
> > separate file (blacklist.txt) for projects that should not be synced
> > into repositories and tested against the global-requirements.txt
> > list, and pylint is included there along with several other linter
> > tools.
> > 
> > I'm not sure why the linters were also being added to
> > global-requirements.txt, but it seems like a mistake. I have proposed
> > a patch [2] to remove them, which should allow projects that want
> > to update pylint to do so while not forcing everyone to update at
> > the same time. If we find issues with the requirements sync after
> > removing the entries from the global list, we should fix the syncing
> > scripts so we can keep the linters blacklisted.
> > 
> > Doug
> > 
> > [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-June/118085.html
> > [2] https://review.openstack.org/473094
> 
> Are you sure that works as expected? My understanding is that the
> requirements enforcement jobs only let you set requirements lines to
> what are in that file. So that effectively prevents anyone from changing
> the linters lines ever (see
> http://logs.openstack.org/69/473369/1/check/gate-nova-requirements/b425844/console.html)
> 
>     -Sean
> 

Thanks. https://review.openstack.org/473402 should take care of that.

Doug