[openstack-ansible][monasca][zaqar][watcher][searchlight] Retirement of unused OpenStack Ansible roles

Trinh Nguyen dangtrinhnt at gmail.com
Wed May 8 17:00:37 UTC 2019


Hi all,

I would love to take care of the searchlight roles. Are there any specific
requirements I need to keep in mind?

Bests,

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 5:50 AM Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> These roles have been broken for over a year now, some are not even
> integrated with the OpenStack Ansible integrated repository.
>
> I think it's safe to say that for the most part, they have no users or
> consumers unless someone has integrated it downstream somewhere and
> didn't push that back out. It is a lot of overhead to maintain roles,
> we're a small team that has to manage a huge amount of roles and their
> integration, while on paper, I'd love for someone to step in and help,
> but no one has for over a year.
>
> If someone wants to step in and get those roles to catch up on all the
> technical debt they've accumulated (because when we'd do fixes across
> all roles, we would always leave them.. because they always failed
> tests..) then we're one revert away from it.  I have some thoughts on
> how we can resolve this for the future, but they're much more long
> term, but for now, the additional workload on our very short resourced
> team is a lot.
>
> Thanks,
> Mohammed
>
> On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:56 AM Guilherme Steinmüller
> <gsteinmuller at vexxhost.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Witek and Jean-Philippe.
> >
> > I will hold off the retirement process until the end of PTG.
> >
> > Just for your information, that's what we have until now
> https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:retire-osa-unused-roles+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
> .
> >
> > I just -w the monsca roles as they were the only roles someone
> manifested interest.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 8:14 AM Jean-Philippe Evrard <
> jean-philippe at evrard.me> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am not sure this follows our documented retirement process, and it
> seems very early to do so for some roles.
> >> I think we should discuss role retirement at the next PTG (if we want
> to change that process).
> >>
> >> In the meantime, I encourage people from the
> monasca/zaqar/watcher/searchlight community interested deploying with
> openstack-ansible to step up and take over their respective role's
> maintainance.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Jean-Philippe Evrard (evrardjp).
> >>
>
>
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