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On 1/20/21 12:13 PM, Stephen Finucane wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 07:26 +0000, Lucian Petrut wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  
>> For Windows related projects such as os-win and networking-hyperv,
>> we decided to keep the lower constraints job but remove indirect
>> dependencies from the lower-constraints.txt file.
>>  
>> This made it much easier to maintain and it allows us to at least cover
>> direct dependencies. I suggest considering this approach instead of
>> completely dropping the lower constraints job, whenever possible.
>> Another option might be to make it non-voting while it’s getting fixed.
>>  
>> Lucian Petrut
> 
> Yes, I've looked into doing this elsewhere (as promised) and it seems to do the
> job quite nicely. It's not perfect but it does seem to be "good enough" and
> captures basic things like "I depend on this function found in oslo.foo vX.Y and
> forgot to bump my minimum version to reflect this". I think these jobs probably
> offer _more_ value now than they did in the past, given pip is now finally
> honouring the explicit constraints we express in these files, so I would be in
> favour of this approach rather than dropping l-c entirely. I do realize that
> there is some degree of effort here in getting e.g. all the oslo projects fixed,
> but I'm happy to help out with and have already fixed quite a few projects. I
> also wouldn't be opposed to dropping l-c on *stable* branches

+1
I don't really mind for things already released, and already proven to
work, though please everyone: take care when backporting patches.

Thanks a lot for your proposal. :)

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)