Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
[...]
Here's the catch - mimic is built on twisted. I know twisted was
previously removed from OpenStack (or at least people said "pls no", I
don't know the full history). We didn't intend to stealth-introduce
twisted back into g-r, but it was pointed out to me that it may appear
this way, so here I am letting everyone know. lifeless pointed out that
when tests are failing, people may end up digging into mimic or twisted
code, which most people in this community aren't familiar with AFAIK,
which is a valid point though I hope it isn't required often.
A bit of history with Twisted.
Back in 2010 we decided we could not afford asking OpenStack developers
to be familiar with multiple service architecture frameworks, and
eventlet was chosen as the simplest framework to learn and debug. The
best reference I found on this is still visible in the wiki:
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/UnifiedServiceArchitecture
So, the primary question here is: do folks have a problem with adding
twisted here? We're holding off on Ironic changes that depend on this
until this discussion has happened, but aren't reverting the g-r change
until we decide one way or another.
The only friction I see is how many developers would be expected to need
to learn Twisted in order to complete their jobs. My understanding is
that Twisted expertise could be needed to debug python-ironicclient
functional tests, which makes the cost relatively limited. So if Mimic
brings in a clear and significant benefit, I don't think its Twisted
dependence should play that much against it.
However, I agree with Sean and Jay that the benefit is unclear -- the
few features that Mimic brings seem to be outweighed by the increased
risk of introducing a delta between the implementation and the mock. If
the main benefit is that it's used in other Rackspace projects for
testing (like Ben said), I'm not sure that makes a compelling argument
for the rest of the community...
--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
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