The Oslo program produces a set of python libraries containing infrastructure code shared by OpenStack projects. The APIs provided by these libraries should be high quality, stable, consistent and generally useful.
The process of developing a new Oslo API usually begins by taking code which is common to some OpenStack projects and moving it into this repository. Incubation shouldn't be seen as a long term option for any API - it is merely a stepping stone to inclusion into a published Oslo library.
For more information, see our wiki page:
To run tests in virtualenvs (preferred):
sudo pip install tox tox
To run tests in the current environment:
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt nosetests
To run tests using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a DB backend do:
OS_TEST_DBAPI_ADMIN_CONNECTION=mysql://user:password@host/database tox -e py27
Note, that your DB user must have permissions to create and drop databases.