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

Jeffrey Zhang zhang.lei.fly at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 15:23:19 UTC 2016


Thanks for all guys.

So we have reached an agreement now. We will mark the fedora deprecated now
( Newton ), and plan to drop it in O cycle.

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Haïkel <hguemar at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> 2016-09-21 16:34 GMT+02:00 Steven Dake (stdake) <stdake at cisco.com>:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 9/20/16, 11:18 AM, "Haïkel" <hguemar at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> >     2016-09-19 19:40 GMT+02:00 Jeffrey Zhang <zhang.lei.fly at gmail.com>:
> >     > 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 fedora, Kolla hasn't any test for it and nobody reports any bug
> >     > about it( i.e. nobody use fedora as base distro image). We (kolla
> >     > team) also do not have enough resources to support so many Linux
> >     > distros. I prefer to deprecate fedora support now.  This is talked
> in
> >     > past but inconclusive[0].
> >     >
> >     > Please vote:
> >     >
> >     > 1. Kolla needs support fedora( if so, we need some guys to set up
> the
> >     > gate and fix all the issues ASAP in O cycle)
> >     > 2. Kolla should deprecate fedora support
> >     >
> >     > [0] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-
> June/098526.html
> >     >
> >
> >
> >     /me has no voting rights
> >
> >     As RDO maintainer and Fedora developer, I support option 2. as it'd
> be
> >     very time-consuming to maintain Fedora support..
> >
> >
> >     >
> >     > --
> >     > Regards,
> >     > Jeffrey Zhang
> >     > Blog: http://xcodest.me
> >     >
> >
> > Haikel,
> >
> > Quck Q – are you saying maintaining fedora in kolla is time consuming or
> that maintaining rdo for fedora is time consuming (and something that is
> being dropped)?
> >
>
> Both, in my experience in maintaining RDO on Fedora, I encountered
> similar issues than Kolla. It's doable but a lot of work.
> One of the biggest problem are updates, you may have disruptive
> updates on python modules packages quite frequently, or even rarer,
> get some updates reverted.
> So keeping Fedora in a good shape would require a decent amount of efforts.
>
> Regards,
> H.
>
>
>
> > Thanks for improving clarity on this situation.
> >
> > Regards
> > -steve
> >
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Regards,
Jeffrey Zhang
Blog: http://xcodest.me
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