[Rdo-list] python-*client packaging

[Dave Allan]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:46:42AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> > What about the point that the CI runs on what gets uploaded to pypi
> > and therefore the random commits are not as thoroughly tested?
> 
> The commits are tested just like anything else, but projects that *use*
> the client don't gate on the new code until it is released. So, a commit
> to novaclient runs a full nova stack just like a nova patch would, and
> should have anything else that uses it (like neutron) run against it as
> well, which should prevent merging a patch against novaclient that
> breaks neutron.
> 
> It does happen that we occasionally merge a patch that was fine at one
> point, but races with another change in another project to create a
> problem once it's released. However, that breaks the world and everyone
> jumps on it immediately. Infrequent and short-lived.
> 
> --Dan
> 
> 

Fair enough; thanks for the explanation.

Dave