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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Swartzlander" <ben at swartzlander.org>
> To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 9:00:06 PM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] [Manila] HDFS CI broken
> 
> The gate-manila-tempest-dsvm-hdfs jenkins job has been failing for a
> long time now. It appears to be a config issue that's probably not hard
> to fix, but nobody is actively maintaining this code.
> 
> Since it's a waste of resources to continue running this broken job, I
> plan to disable it, and if nobody wants to volunteer to get it working
> again, we will need to take the HDFS driver out of the tree in Mitaka,
> since we can't ensure its quality without the CI job.

With a set of patches [1] for HDFS's devstack plugin (devstack-plugin-hdfs project),
I'm able to get the CI job, gate-manila-tempest-dsvm-hdfs, to pass.
The patches, except one, have been up for a long time. The maintainer of the
HDFS plugin has not reviewed them.

The fixes were not hard. I also am concerned about the lack of maintenance
of the plugin, and the driver, for e.g. is someone going to implement the
new 'update_access' API for the HDFS driver that'd soon be a requirement
for all drivers?

Thanks,
Ramana

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/278504/
    need to fix bashate error that is unrelated to the fix
    
    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/264277/
    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/261030/
    https://review.openstack.org/#/c/261028/
> 
> I really don't like removing drivers, especially fully open-source
> drivers, but we have too many other priorities this release to be
> distracted by fixing this kind of thing. If this driver is something
> people actively use and find valuable, then it should not be hard to
> find a volunteer to fix it.
> 
> -Ben Swartzlander
> 
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