On 2018-03-15 10:05, Thomas Morin wrote: > Hi Andreas, all, > > Andreas Jaeger, 2018-03-14 20:46: >> Note that thanks to the tox-siblings feature, we really continue to >> install neutron and horizon from git - and not use the versions in the >> global-requirements constraints file. > > This addresses my main concern, which was that by removing > tools/tox_install.sh we would end up not pulling master from git. > > The fact that we do keep pulling from git wasn't explicit AFAIK in any > of the commit messages of the changes I had to look at to understand > what was being modified.
Sorry for not mentioning that. > I concur with Akihiro's comment, and would go slightly beyond that: > ideally the solution chosen would not only technical work, but would > reduce the ahah-there-is-magic-behind-the-scene effect, which is a pain > I believe for many: people new to the community face a steeper learning > curve, people inside the community need to spend time adjust, and infra > folks end up having to document or explain more. In this precise case, > the magic behind the scene (ie. the tox-siblings role) may lead to > confusion for packagers (why our CI tests as valid is not what appears > in requirements.txt) and perhaps people working in external communities > (e.g. [1]). The old way - included some magic as well ;( I agree with Doug - we need to architect our dependencies better to avoid these problems and hacks, Andreas > Best, > > -Thomas > > [1] > http://docs.opnfv.org/en/latest/submodules/releng-xci/docs/xci-overview.html#xci-overview -- Andreas Jaeger aj@{suse.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126 __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
