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On 04/11/2014 01:43 AM, Ian Wienand wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To summarize recent discussions, nobody is opposed in general to
> having Fedora / Centos included in the gate.  However, it raises a
> number of "big" questions : which job(s) to run on Fedora, where does
> the quota for extra jobs come from, how do we get the job on multiple
> providers, how stable will it be, how will we handle new releases,
> centos v fedora, etc.
> 
> I think we agreed in [1] that the best thing to do is to start small,
> get some experience with multiple platforms and grow from there.  Thus
> the decision to target a single job to test just incoming devstack
> changes on Fedora 20.  This is a very moderate number of changes, so
> adding a separate test will not have a huge impact on resources.
> 
> Evidence points to this being a good point to start.  People
> submitting to devstack might have noticed comments from "redhatci"
> like [2] which reports runs of their change on a variety of rpm-based
> distros.  Fedora 20 has been very stable, so we should not have many
> issues.  Making sure it stays stable is very useful to build on for
> future gate jobs.
> 
> I believe we decided that to make a non-voting job we could just focus
> on running on Rackspace and avoid the issues of older fedora images on
> hp cloud.  Longer term, either a new hp cloud version comes, or DIB
> builds the fedora images ... either way we have a path to upgrading it
> to a voting job in time.  Another proposal was to use the ooo cloud,
> but dprince feels that is probably better kept separate.
> 
> Then we have the question of the nodepool setup scripts working on
> F20.  I just tested the setup scripts from [3] and it all seems to
> work on a fresh f20 cloud image.  I think this is due to kchamart,
> peila2 and others who've fixed parts of this before.
> 
> So, is there:
> 
>  1) anything blocking having f20 in the nodepool?
>  2) anything blocking a simple, non-voting job to test devstack
>     changes on f20?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -i
> 
> [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/infra/2014/infra.2014-04-08-19.01.log.html#l-89
> [2] http://people.redhat.com/~iwienand/86310/
> [3] https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/config/tree/modules/openstack_project/files/nodepool/scripts

I can't speak to #1, however I'm +1 on this effort. Would love to have
devstack running on Fedora as well on changes in general, and especially
on devstack, as we accidentally break Fedora far too often.

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague
Samsung Research America
sean at dague.net / sean.dague at samsung.com
http://dague.net

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