[openstack-ansible][powervm] dropping support

Mohammed Naser mnaser at vexxhost.com
Fri Jun 7 17:54:44 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:00 AM William M Edmonds - edmondsw at us.ibm.com
<edmondsw at us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/31/19, 6:46 PM, "Mohammed Naser" <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've pushed up a patch to propose dropping support for PowerVM support
> > inside OpenStack Ansible.  There has been no work done on this for a
> > few years now, the configured compute driver is the incorrect one for
> > ~2 years now which indicates that no one has been able to use it for
> > that long.
> >
> > It would be nice to have this driver however given the infrastructure
> > we have upstream, there would be no way for us to effectively test it
> > and bring it back to functional state.  I'm proposing that we remove
> > the code here:
> > https://review.opendev.org/#/c/662587 powervm: drop support
> >
> > If you're using this code and would like to contribute to fixing it
> > and (somehow) adding coverage, please reach out, otherwise, we'll drop
> > this code to clean things up.
>
> Sadly, I don't know of anyone using it or willing to maintain it at this time.
>

:(

We've merged that commit and we've now dropped PowerVM
support for now (alongside the +1 Eric has provided too).

We'd be happy to support it again if/when someone steps up :)


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