On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Ewan Mellor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: 03 February 2011 13:40
>> To: Armando Migliaccio
>> Cc: Ewan Mellor; Andy Smith; Rick Clark; Søren Hansen;
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Network Service for L2/L3 Network
>> Infrastructure blueprint
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:28 AM, Armando Migliaccio
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I second what Ewan said about the coding style in nova.virt.xenapi. I
>> was
>> > responsible for part of refactoring and I am no longer fond of it
>> either. I
>> > still think that it was good to break xenapi.py down as we did, but
>> with
>> > hindsight I would like to revise some of the choices made, and make
>> the code
>> > a bit more Pythonic.
>>
>> Nothing wrong with proposing for merging a branch that does
>> refactoring. It doesn't need to be tied to a bug or blueprint, but if
>> you wait until late in the Cactus cycle, it would have a smaller
>> chance of making it into Cactus since the priority is not refactoring
>> but instead stability and feature parity.
>>
>> So, nothing stopping anyone from proposing refactoring branches.  :)
>
> Absolutely not, as long as we're not trying to merge conflicting branches.  
> That was the problem last time -- I18N and the logging changes in particular 
> were such pervasive pieces of work that it was hard work merging all the 
> time.  Hopefully we won't see the likes of those again for a little while!

Hehe, understood. I did 6 or 7 merge trunks while dealing with i18n,
so I feel you :)  But, luckily, we don't look to have any of those
super-invasive blueprints on deck for Cactus...but you never know ;)

-jay

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