reno does not support git submodule

[Thomas Morin]

This report is for information only, and the reporter does not claim that it needs fixing.

reno does not seem to support git submodule ; here is the kind of error reported:

   Exception occurred:
   File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/.tox/releasenotes/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dulwich/index.py", line 543, in blob_from_path_and_stat
     with open(fs_path, 'rb') as f:
   IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: [ path to a git submodule mount point ]

In the example below, reno fails on the 'bagpipe-bgp' subdirectory which is a mountpoint for a git submodule. Note that this happens on an older branch (stable/ocata) of an openstack project that has since moved away from the use of a git submodule.

2017-08-03 00:00:04.088767 | [reno.config] no configuration file in /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/releasenotes/config.yaml
2017-08-03 00:00:04.088820 | [reno] scanning /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/releasenotes/notes for origin/stable/newton release notes
2017-08-03 00:00:04.089299 | [reno.scanner] scanning /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/releasenotes/notes (branch=origin/stable/newton earliest_version=None)
2017-08-03 00:00:04.253822 | [reno.scanner] earliest version to include is 5.0.0
2017-08-03 00:00:04.253902 | [reno.scanner] stopping scan at 4.0.0
2017-08-03 00:00:04.270696 | [reno.scanner] 000008 4cf3bcdc0f0d64e9b7cfdb6f79fe62b8af6aa187 updating current version to 5.0.0
2017-08-03 00:00:04.280517 | [reno.scanner] 000039 870d281eeb707fbb6c4de431d764cebb586f872e updating current version to 4.0.0
2017-08-03 00:00:04.280830 | [reno.scanner] reached end of branch after 39 commits at 870d281eeb707fbb6c4de431d764cebb586f872e with tags [u'4.0.0']
2017-08-03 00:00:04.280948 | [reno] got versions []
2017-08-03 00:00:04.283142 | reading sources... [100%] unreleased
2017-08-03 00:00:04.285801 | [reno.config] no configuration file in /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/releasenotes/config.yaml
2017-08-03 00:00:04.285861 | [reno] scanning /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/releasenotes/notes for current branch release notes
2017-08-03 00:00:04.285904 | [reno.scanner] scanning /home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/releasenotes/notes (branch=*current* earliest_version=None)
2017-08-03 00:00:04.377233 | [reno.scanner] earliest version to include is 6.0.0-5
2017-08-03 00:00:04.377271 | [reno.scanner] stopping scan at 6.0.0
2017-08-03 00:00:04.378496 |
2017-08-03 00:00:04.378566 | Exception occurred:
2017-08-03 00:00:04.380357 | File "/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/.tox/releasenotes/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dulwich/index.py", line 543, in blob_from_path_and_stat
2017-08-03 00:00:04.380426 | with open(fs_path, 'rb') as f:
2017-08-03 00:00:04.380469 | IOError: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/home/jenkins/workspace/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/bagpipe-bgp'
2017-08-03 00:00:04.382078 | The full traceback has been saved in /tmp/tmp.sQlXe9w61K/sphinx-err-qw_H9n.log, if you want to report the issue to the developers.

[1] http://logs.openstack.org/55/490255/1/check/gate-networking-bagpipe-releasenotes/8580a29/console.html.gz#_2017-08-03_00_00_04_380357

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

We don't support submodules in most of the rest of the tools for OpenStack so I'm not all that interested in adding support to reno unless someone else wants to write it.

[Doug Hellmann (doug-hellmann)]

The bug tracker for reno has moved to storyboard: https://storyboard.openstack.org/#!/project/933