[openstack-dev] Proposal for a process to keep up with Python releases

Doug Hellmann doug at doughellmann.com
Tue Oct 30 15:41:41 UTC 2018


Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com> writes:

> On 19/10/18 11:17 AM, Zane Bitter wrote:
>> I'd like to propose that we handle this by setting up a unit test 
>> template in openstack-zuul-jobs for each release. So for Stein we'd have 
>> openstack-python3-stein-jobs. This template would contain:
>> 
>> * A voting gate job for the highest minor version of py3 we want to 
>> support in that release.
>> * A voting gate job for the lowest minor version of py3 we want to 
>> support in that release.
>> * A periodic job for any interim minor releases.
>> * (Starting late in the cycle) a non-voting check job for the highest 
>> minor version of py3 we want to support in the *next* release (if 
>> different), on the master branch only.
>> 
>> So, for example, (and this is still under active debate) for Stein we 
>> might have gating jobs for py35 and py37, with a periodic job for py36. 
>> The T jobs might only have voting py36 and py37 jobs, but late in the T 
>> cycle we might add a non-voting py38 job on master so that people who 
>> haven't switched to the U template yet can see what, if anything, 
>> they'll need to fix.
>
> Just to make it easier to visualise, here is an example for how the Zuul 
> config _might_ look now if we had adopted this proposal during Rocky:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/611947
>
> And instead of having a project-wide goal in Stein to add 
> `openstack-python36-jobs` to the list that currently includes 
> `openstack-python35-jobs` in each project's Zuul config[1], we'd have 
> had a goal to change `openstack-python3-rocky-jobs` to 
> `openstack-python3-stein-jobs` in each project's Zuul config.

If we set up the template before we branch stein for T, we could
generate a patch as part of the branching process.

Doug

>
> - ZB
>
>
> [1] 
> https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/stein/python3-first.html#python-3-6-unit-test-jobs
>
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