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On 12/07/2016 07:52 PM, Pavlo Shchelokovskyy wrote:
> HI all,
>
> we (ironic community) some time ago decided [0] to require third-party CI for
> any driver that is present in the main ironic code tree. I'd like to discuss the
> state of currently unsupported drivers and how to proceed with them.
>
> Here is the current rundown, please correct me if I've got something wrong:
>
> * AMT - already in ironic-staging-drivers repo, patch removing those from ironic
> is on review [1]
> * iBoot - already in ironic-staging-drivers repo, patch removing those from
> ironic is on review [1]
> * WakeOnLan - already in ironic-staging-drivers repo, patch removing those from
> ironic is on review [1]
> * IPMINative/Pyghmi - community driver, AFAIU community still considers those as
> a viable alternative for the future and is constantly re-evaluating maturity of
> pyghmi IPMI implementation, so these are to stay for now
> * SSH - community driver, still used on several ironic gate jobs and in jobs of
> other projects under Baremetal program (like bifrost). Besides AFAIK quite a
> number of people use it for development. So it is to stay in the tree for some
> more time too, at least until all upstream gate jobs are moved to ipmitool-based
> drivers.

Do we have a list of jobs still using it? I think we should fix them ASAP and 
proceed with removing (or rather moving to ironic-staging-drivers).

> * SNMP - people are working to enable testing it in CI, patches are landing,
> stays in tree
> * VirtualBox - community driver, for testing only, VirtualBox can be used via
> SSH driver and I am not aware of any plans for (third-party) CI for it (although
> it would in principle be possible even in upstream). Is anyone actually using
> this driver?
> * MSFTOCS - vendor driver, I am not aware of any plans for third-party CI
> * SeaMicro - vendor driver, I am not aware of any plans for third-party CI
>
> Based on that I propose to remove VirtualBox, MSFTOCS and SeaMicro drivers from
> ironic right away. If anybody is interested in supporting them they would have
> to extract those drivers (together with unit tests and docs) to separate repos
> or propose them to ironic-staging-drivers minding the warning [2].
>
> [0] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/specs/not-implemented/third-party-ci.html
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397847
> [2] http://ironic-staging-drivers.readthedocs.io/en/latest/README.html#what-the-ironic-staging-drivers-is-not
>
> Best regards,
> Dr. Pavlo Shchelokovskyy
> Senior Software Engineer
> Mirantis Inc
> www.mirantis.com <http://www.mirantis.com>
>
>
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