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What really cratered our implementation of fedora was the introduction of
DNF.  Prior to that, we led with Fedora.  I switched my focus to something
slower moving (CentOS) so I could focus on a properly working RDO rather
then working around the latest and greatest changes.

That said, if someone wants to fix Kolla to run against dnf, that would be
fantastic, as it will need to be done for CentOS8 an RHEL8.

Regards
-steve

On 6/29/16, 6:07 PM, "Gerard Braad" <me at gbraad.nl> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>
>Kolla has supported Fedora AFAIK since the project started, and offers
>several other valid options:
>
>  # Valid options are [ centos, fedora, oraclelinux, ubuntu ]
>  #kolla_base_distro: "centos"
>
>but in recent time, it came to my attention that the support of Fedora
>is lacking. There could be several reasons for this;
>
>  1. interest
>  2. lack of resources
>  3. life cycle
>
>Firstly, might this be related to the fact that deploying on Fedora is
>not of interest to most? The majority of deployments of OpenStack
>happen on either Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS. However, supporting Fedora
>early can help the deliverance on future version of RHEL/CentOS
>(although, there can be years in between before this happens). It is
>therefore still of importance.
>
>Second, and this is probably more likely the case. The Kolla project
>lacks the resources to maintain releasing on Fedora. Especially, since
>Fedora carries newer versions of software, there is a tendency of
>breakage. Automated tests is because of this of high importance.
>
>Third, since Fedora does not have a concept of Long-term releases, the
>release is only supported for a period of approximately 13 months.
>This is detailed in the Release Life Cycle [1] and EOL status page
>[2]. This means that after a release, like currently F24, the previous
>version like F22 will be phased out.
>
>A recent bugreport [3] about the image availability got resolved by
>implementing F22 (which would have been phased out just a month or two
>from now). The suggestion was to use CentOS for this. Maybe in this
>case it was... but should we?
>
>The question is not "Do we want to support Fedora?", but "Can we
>support Fedora?. If my time allows, I will certainly work on making
>this happen. But before, it might be needed to collect some of the
>feedback what has been done, what needs to be done... and what is
>currently the impediment of making it happen, like issues with
>versions of the dependencies.
>
>Would like to hear your thoughts...
>
>regards,
>
>
>Gerard
>
>[1]  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Release_Life_Cycle
>[2]  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/End_of_life
>[3]  https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla/+bug/1589770
>
>-- 
>
>   Gerard Braad | http://gbraad.nl
>   [ Doing Open Source Matters ]
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