Hey David, Thank you for undertaking this task!
I agree, that merging of DB2 support can be postponed for now, even if it looks totally harmless (though I see no way to test it, as we don't have DB2 instances running on Infra test nodes). Thanks, Roman On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Davanum Srinivas <[email protected]> wrote: > @dripton, @Roman Many thanks :) > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 3:35 PM, David Ripton <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 11/11/2013 11:37 AM, Roman Podoliaka wrote: >> >>> As you may know, in our global requirements list [1] we are currently >>> depending on SQLAlchemy 0.7.x versions (which is 'old stable' branch >>> and will be deprecated soon). This is mostly due to the fact, that the >>> latest release of sqlalchemy-migrate from PyPi doesn't support >>> SQLAlchemy 0.8.x+. >>> >>> At the same time, distros have been providing patches for fixing this >>> incompatibility for a long time now. Moreover, those patches have been >>> merged to sqlalchemy-migrate master too. >>> >>> As we are now maintaining sqlalchemy-migrate, we could make a new >>> release of it. This would allow us to bump the version of SQLAlchemy >>> release we are depending on (as soon as we fix all the bugs we have) >>> and let distros maintainers stop carrying their own patches. >>> >>> This has been discussed at the design summit [2], so we just basically >>> need a volunteer from [3] Gerrit ACL group to make a new release. >>> >>> Is sqlalchemy-migrate stable enough to make a new release? I think, >>> yes. The commits we've merged since we adopted this library, only fix >>> a few issues with SQLAlchemy 0.8.x compatibility and enable running of >>> tests (we are currently testing all new changes on py26/py27, >>> SQLAlchemy 0.7.x/0.8.x, SQLite/MySQL/PostgreSQL). >>> >>> Who wants to help? :) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Roman >>> >>> [1] >>> https://github.com/openstack/requirements/blob/master/global-requirements.txt >>> [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/icehouse-oslo-db-migrations >>> [3] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/186,members >> >> >> I'll volunteer to do this release. I'll wait 24 hours from the timestamp of >> this email for input first. So, if anyone has opinions about the timing of >> this release, please speak up. >> >> (In particular, I'd like to do a release *before* Matt Riedermann's DB2 >> support patch https://review.openstack.org/#/c/55572/ lands, just in case it >> breaks anything. Of course we could do another release shortly after it >> gets in, to make folks who use DB2 happy.) >> >> -- >> David Ripton Red Hat [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > > -- > Davanum Srinivas :: http://davanum.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
