[TripleO] Opting out of global-requirements.txt

Wesley Hayutin whayutin at redhat.com
Thu May 13 18:47:12 UTC 2021


On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:41 PM James Slagle <james.slagle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd like to propose that TripleO opt out of dependency management by
> removing tripleo-common from global-requirements.txt.  I do not feel that
> the global dependency management brings any advantages or anything needed
> for TripleO. I can't think of any reason to enforce the ability to be
> globally pip installable with the rest of OpenStack.
>
> Two of our most critical projects, tripleoclient and tripleo-common do not
> even put many of their data files in the right place where our code expects
> them when they are pip installed. So, I feel fairly confident that no one
> is pip installing TripleO and relying on global requirements enforcement.
>
> One potential advantage of not being in global-requirements.txt is that
> our unit tests and functional tests could actually test the same code. As
> things stand today, our unit tests in projects that depend on
> tripleo-common are pinned to the version in global-requirements.txt, while
> our functional tests currently run with tripleo-common from master (or
> included depends-on).
>
> The changes needed would be (aiui):
> - Remove tripleo repos from projects.txt
> - Remove check-requirements jobs from those same repos
> - Remove tripleo-common from global-requirements.txt
>
> I think we should also plan to backport these changes to Wallaby.
>
> Let me know any concerns or feedback, or anything I might be overlooking.
> Thanks.
>

+1 thanks for sending this out James!

>
> --
> -- James Slagle
> --
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