Re: [Openstack] best practices for merging common into specific projects

2012-07-03 Thread Timothy Daly
I've been following along at home a bit. I can totally see where it's desirable to have well thought out APIs that you can commit to supporting and encourage other people to use. And that you sometimes have expedient code that you aren't as comfortable with. What I don't get is how using

Re: [Openstack] Openstack special sauce checking tool??

2012-06-28 Thread Timothy Daly
nova has tools/hacking.py, which looks like it does check some import stuff, among other things. -tim On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:15 AM, Joshua Harlow wrote: Hi all, I remember hearing once that someone had a openstack import/hacking style checking tool. I was wondering if such a thing

Re: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity

2012-06-08 Thread Timothy Daly
I would actually like to see us downcase, (ASCII downcase, anyway), the role names when they are created. Then we will not get into trouble when interfacing with case-insensitive systems -- the question of case will never come up. Case sensitive comparisons are less code and run faster, so

Re: [Openstack] Comparing roles - case (in)sensitivity

2012-06-08 Thread Timothy Daly
On Jun 8, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: On Fri, Jun 08, 2012, Brian Waldon brian.wal...@rackspace.com wrote: Can you explain why? Not to speak for Kiall, but I'll make the argument that there is no value in treating admin, Admin, and admIn separately. It can only lead to