[cinder][ci] Cinder drivers being Unsupported and General CI Status ...

Shlomi Avihou shlomi at zadara.com
Tue Jan 28 17:08:36 UTC 2020


Greetings,

The Zadara CI system is up and reporting again

Thanks,
Shlomi.

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 9:51 PM Jay Bryant <jungleboyj at gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> We once again are at the point in the release where we are talking about
> 3rd Party CI and what is going on for Cinder.  At the moment I have
> analyzed drivers that have not successfully reported results on a Cinder
> patch in 30 or more days and have put together the following list of
> drivers to be unsupported in the Ussuri release:
>
>    - Inspur Drivers
>    - Infortrend
>    - Kaminario
>    - NEC
>    - Quobyte
>    - Zadara
>    - HPE Drivers
>
> If your name is in the list above you are receiving this e-mail directly,
> not just through the mailing list.
>
> If you are working on resolving CI issues please let me know so we can
> discuss how to proceed.
>
> In addition to the fact that we will be pushing up unsupported patches for
> the drivers above, we have already unsupported and removed a number of
> drivers during this release.  They are as follows:
>
>    - Unsupported:
>       - MacroSAN Driver
>    - Removed:
>       - ProphetStor Driver
>       - Nimble Storage Driver
>       - Veritas Access Driver
>       - Veritas CNFS Driver
>       - Virtuozzo Storage Driver
>       - Huawei FusionStorage Driver
>       - Sheepdog Storage Driver
>
> Obviously we are reaching the point that the number of drivers leaving the
> community is concerning and it has sparked discussions around the fact that
> maybe our 3rd Party CI approach isn't working as intended.  So what do we
> do?  Just mark drivers unsupported and no longer remove drivers?  Do we
> restore drivers that have recently been removed?
>
> We are planning to have further discussion around these questions at our
> next Cinder meeting in #openstack-meeting-4 on Wednesday, 1/29/20 at 14:00
> UTC.  If you have thoughts or strong opinions around this topic please join
> us.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Jay Bryant
>
> jsbryant at electronicjungle.net
>
> IRC:  jungleboyj
>
>
>
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