[openstack-dev] [vote][kolla] deprecation for debian distro support

Paul Bourke paul.bourke at oracle.com
Tue Sep 20 09:34:03 UTC 2016


If it's the case Benedict or noone else is interested in continuing 
Debian, I can reverse my vote. Though it seems I'll be outvoted anyway ;)

On 20/09/16 10:21, Swapnil Kulkarni wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Paul Bourke <paul.bourke at oracle.com> wrote:
>> -1 for deprecating Debian.
>>
>> As I mentioned in https://review.openstack.org/#/c/369183/, Debian support
>> was added incrementally by Benedikt Trefzer as recently as June. So it's
>> reasonable to believe there is at least one active user of Debian.
>>
>> I would like to try get some input from him on whether he's still using it
>> and would be interested in helping maintain by adding gates etc.
>>
>> On 19/09/16 18:44, Jeffrey Zhang wrote:
>>>
>>> Kolla core reviewer team,
>>>
>>> Kolla supports multiple Linux distros now, including
>>>
>>> * Ubuntu
>>> * CentOS
>>> * RHEL
>>> * Fedora
>>> * Debian
>>> * OracleLinux
>>>
>>> But only Ubuntu, CentOS, and OracleLinux are widely used and we have
>>> robust gate to ensure the quality.
>>>
>>> For Debian, Kolla hasn't any test for it and nobody reports any bug
>>> about it( i.e. nobody use Debian as base distro image). We (kolla
>>> team) also do not have enough resources to support so many Linux
>>> distros. I prefer to deprecate Debian support now.
>>>
>>> Please vote:
>>>
>>> 1. Kolla needs support Debian( if so, we need some guys to set up the
>>> gate and fix all the issues ASAP in O cycle)
>>> 2. Kolla should deprecate Debian support
>>>
>>> Voting is open for 7 days until September 27st, 2016.
>>>
>>
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>
> +1 for #2
>
> I agree with reasoning from Paul, though Debian support was being
> added incrementally by Benedikt Trefzer but it has been stopped in
> middle and all patches in the queue were abandoned [1]
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:bp/build-debian,n,z
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