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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 10:15 AM, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Michael Bayer's message of 2018-02-19 10:00:59 -0500:
>> Hi list -
>>
>> Apparently Cinder was misled by my deprecations within the
>> oslo_db.sqlalchemy.test_base package of DbFixture and DbTestCase, and
>> in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/522290/ the assumption was made
>> that these should be imported from oslo_db.tests.sqlalchemy.    This
>> is an immense mistake on my part that I did not expect people to go
>> looking for the same names elsewhere in private packages and now we
>> have a serious downstream issue as these modules are not packaged, as
>> well as the possibility that the oslo_db.tests. package is now locked
>> in time and I have to add deprecations there also.
>>
>> If anyone knows of projects (or feels like helping me search) that are
>> importing *anything* from oslo_db.tests these must be reverted ASAP.
>>
>
> If we have modules or classes we don't expect people to be importing
> directly, we need to prefix the names with _ to comply with the naming
> conventions we have previously told everyone to look for to recognize
> private code.

doing that now

>
> I think it's safe to treat "tests" as an exception (after resolving
> this case) but we should probably document that.

the example of three projects that did this without any of us knowing
should illustrate that we really can't make that assumption.


>
> Doug
>
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