I've been meaning to write something up about how I set up my OpenStack development environment because there are some handy things you can do before you even get started that will likely save you some hassle down the line. I've recently discovered that there are rather varied ways other people are doing this sort of thing, so keep in mind that this isn't the "right" way, it isn't the best way, but it's what works for me.
Since this comes up on a fairly regular basis, please note that community policy says review requests should not be posted to the openstack-dev list. For details and the correct methods to use, see Thierry's mailing list entry on the topic: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-September/015264...
As an added bonus, now I don't have to search the archives to find that when I need to link someone to it. :-)
It's been a humbling week for me. Which is good because it means I'm learning things, but I will admit it would be nice to not find out I'm completely wrong about quite so many things in such a short span of time. I figured I would share what I've learned so it might be useful to someone else, because evidently it wasn't obvious to me.
