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On 01/03/2017 13:00, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 03/01/2017 12:26 AM, Tony Breeds wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>     Earlier today the release team tagged PBR 2.0.0.  The reason for the major
>> version bump is because warnerrors has been removed in favor of
>> warning-is-error from sphinx >= 1.5.0.
>>
>> It seems that several projects outside both inside and outside OpenStack have
>> capped pbr <2.0.0 so we can't actually use this release yet.  The requirements
>> team will work with all projects to remove the cap of pbr in those projects.
>>
>> The good news is that projects using upper-constraints.txt are insulated from
>> this and shouldn't be affected[1].  However upper-constraints.txt isn't being used
>> by all projects and *those* projects will start seeing
>>
>> ContextualVersionConflicts: (pbr 2.0.0 in gate logs.  It's recommended that
>> those projects add a local ban for pbr and associate it with:
>>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-requirements/+bug/1668848
>>
>> Then once the situation is resolved we can unwind and remove the temporary caps.
>>
>> Yours Tony.
>>
>> [1] There is at least 1 corner case where the coverage job installed directly
>>     from a git URL and therefore that wasn't protected.
>
> So, I feel like we hit a similar issue around Vancouver with a pbr bump.
> Can we stop capping pbr per rule now?
>
> I also wonder if we can grant the release team +2 permissions on
> everything in OpenStack so that fixes like this can be gotten in quickly
> without having to go chase a bunch of teams.

That sounds like a good idea to me.

> 	-Sean
>