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Hi Mohammed,

I might be able to help where can I find this info?

Thanks
chuck

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'll get right into the point.
>
> At the moment, the Puppet OpenStack modules don't have much
> contributors which can help maintain the Ubuntu support.  We deploy on
> CentOS (so we try to get all the fixes in that we can) and there is a
> lot of activity from the TripleO team as well which does their
> deployments on CentOS which means that the CentOS support is very
> reliable and CI is always sought after.
>
> However, starting a while back, we started seeing occasional failures
> with Ubuntu deploys which lead us set the job to non-voting.  At the
> moment, the Puppet integration jobs for Ubuntu are always failing
> because of some Tempest issue.  This means that with every Puppet
> change, we're wasting ~80 minutes of CI run time for a job that will
> always fail.
>
> We've had a lot of support from the packaging team at RDO (which are
> used in Puppet deployments) and they run our integration before
> promoting packages which makes it helpful in finding issues together.
> However, we do not have that with Ubuntu neither has there been anyone
> who is taking initiative to look and investigate those issues.
>
> I understand that there are users out there who use Ubuntu with Puppet
> OpenStack modules.  We need your help to come and try and clear those
> issues out. We'd be more than happy to give assistance to lead you in
> the right way to help fix those issues.
>
> Unfortunately, if we don't have any folks stepping up to resolving
> this, we'll be forced to drop all CI for Ubuntu and make a note to
> users that Ubuntu is not fully tested and hope that as users run into
> issues, they can contribute fixes back (or that someone can work on
> getting Ubuntu gating working again).
>
> Thanks for reading through this, I am quite sad that we'd have to drop
> support for such a major operating system, but there's only so much we
> can do with a much smaller team.
>
> Thank you,
> Mohammed
>
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