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[Gabriel Hurley <Gabriel.Hurley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

So, I understand the rationales, and I think of those three options the one chosen is the most reasonable. I'm gonna just come out and say I hate this whole idea, but let's set this aside for a minute 'cuz I have a genuine question:

What will the process be for merging changes to this requirements list? Having yet another roadblock to getting your contribution merged is a huge developer disincentive. We're really making it exceptionally hard for new contributors, and frustrating even for the old hands.

So, with the goal of making the coordinated management of the projects possible, what can we do to respect developers?

    - Gabriel

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openstack-bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> bounces+gabriel.hurley=nebula.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Monty Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 7:54 AM
> To: Eric Windisch
> Cc: openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Single global dependency list
> 
> 
> 
> On 07/03/2012 10:09 AM, Eric Windisch wrote:
> > I have to agree with others that copying files around is not ideal,
> > and I can see the maintenance of this getting more involved as Nova
> > becomes more coupled with common.
> >
> >>> Additionally, we'd make the copy only copy in the versions from
> >>> openstack-common for package that were already listed in the target
> >>> project, so that we wouldn't add django to python-swiftclient, for
> >>> instance.
> >
> > This seems to be a reasonable argument against using git submodules,
> > but I'm afraid we might be losing more than we're gaining here.
> >
> > Just because python-swiftclient depends on openstack-common, and
> > django-using code exists there, doesn't mean that django needs to be
> > installed for python-swiftclient. We might do better to use git
> > submodules and solve the dependency problem, than continuing down
> this
> > copy-everything path.
> 
> We're explicitly NOT doing a copy-everything path. That's the whole point.
> We're only copying the needed depends from the master list.
> 
> git submodules actually make the problem worse, not better.
> 
> > Alternatively, speed up the movement from incubation to library.
> 
> Yeah - that's kind of the reason that bcwaldon was saying this shouldn't be in
> openstack-common. openstack-common wants to be a library, and then
> we're back at not having an appropriate place for the master list.
> 
> Monty
> 
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