[openstack-dev] [requirements][stable][docs] updating openstackdocstheme in stable branches

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Wed Jun 27 13:20:29 UTC 2018


Excerpts from Tony Breeds's message of 2018-06-27 12:42:47 +1000:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 09:03:40AM -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Requirements team,
> > 
> > At some point in the next few months we're going to want to raise
> > the constraint on openstackdocstheme in all of the old branches so
> > we can take advantage of a new feature for showing the supported
> > status of each version of a project. That feature isn't implemented
> > yet, but I thought it would be good to discuss in advance the need
> > to update the dependency and how to do it.
> > 
> > The theme is released under an independent release model and does
> > not currently have stable branches.  It depends on pbr and dulwich,
> > both of which should already be in the requirements and constraints
> > lists (dulwich is a dependency of reno).
> 
> The only possible gottcha is if openstackdocstheme relies on a feature
> in any of pbr or dulwich which isn't in the version currently in
> upper-constratints.txt.  If that happens we can easily bump those
> constraints also.

Good point. I don't expect either to be the case, but I'll verify that
before going ahead.

> > I think that means the simplest thing to do would be to just update
> > the constraint for the theme in the stable branches. Does that seem
> > right?
> 
> Yup that seems to be all there is to it.  Once the release happens the
> bot will propose the constraints bump on master which someone will need
> to cherry-pick onto the stable branches.

I'm sure we can find someone from the documentation team to do that.

Thanks!
Doug



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