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On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 18:00 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Stephen Finucane <sfinucan at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2018-10-04 at 07:21 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > > Stephen Finucane <sfinucan at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > > Anyway, we can go figure out what's changed here and handle it but this
> > > > is, at best, going to be a band aid. The fact is 'sphinx_testing' is
> > > > unmaintained and has been for some time now. The new hotness is
> > > > 'sphinx.testing' [3], which is provided (with zero documentation) as
> > > > part of Sphinx. Unfortunately, this uses pytest fixtures [4] which I'm
> > > > pretty sure Monty (and a few others?) are vehemently against using in
> > > > OpenStack. That leaves us with three options:
> > > > 
> > > >  * Take over 'sphinx_testing' and bring it up-to-date. Maintain
> > > >    forever.
> > > >  * Start using 'sphinx.testing' and everything it comes with
> > > >  * Delete any tests that use 'sphinx_testing' and deal with the lack of
> > > >    coverage
> > > 
> > > Could we change our tests to use pathlib to wrap app.outdir and get the
> > > same results as before?
> > 
> > That's what I've done [2], which is kind of based on how I fixed this
> > in Sphinx. However, this is at best a stopgap. The fact remains that
> > 'sphinx_testing' is dead and the large changes that Sphinx is
> > undergoing (2.0 will be Python 3 only, with multiple other fixes) will
> > make further breakages more likely. Unless we want a repeat of the Mox
> > situation, I do think we should start thinking about this sooner rather
> > than later.
> 
> Yeah, it sounds like we need to deal with the change.
> 
> It looks like only the os-api-ref repo uses sphinx-testing. How many
> tests are we talking about having to rewrite/update there?
> 
> Doug

That's good news. I'd expected other projects would use it but then
nothing I've worked on does (and that likely constitutes a large
percentage of Sphinx extensions in OpenStack). I see four failing tests
so I guess, if they break again, we can opt for option 3 above and deal
with it. I can't see os-api-ref changing too much in the future
(barring adding PDF support at some point).

Stephen