[all][stable] Moving the stable/ocata to 'Unmaintained' phase and then EOL

Brian Rosmaita rosmaita.fossdev at gmail.com
Thu May 28 18:06:08 UTC 2020


On 5/28/20 1:03 PM, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Ocata is in the 'Extended Maintenance' phase[1] but its gate is broken and difficult to fix now.
> 
> The main issue started for gate is about Tempest and its deps constraint is correctly used on Ocata or not.
> We fixed most of those issues when things started failing during py2 drop[2].
> 
> But now things are broken due to newer stestr is installed in Ocata jobs[2]. As Sean also mentioned in this
> backport[4] that stestr is not constraint in Ocata[5] as it was not in g-r that time so cannot be added in u-c.
> 
> Tempest old tag cannot be fixed to have that with cap on the tempest side.
> 
> The only option left to unblock the gate is to remove the integration testing from Ocata gate. But it will untested after that
> as we cannot say unit testing is enough to mark it tested.  At least from QA perspective, I would not say it is tested
> if there is no integration job running there.
> 
> Keeping it untested (no integration testing) and saying it is Maintained in the community can be very confusing things.
> I think its time to move it to the 'Unmaintained' phase and then EOL. Thought?

+1000

It would be really helpful if we could make this transition as soon as 
possible.  I don't see any reason to delay, particularly since the 
policy [a] allows a transition back to EM should maintainers step up in 
the next six months.

How about putting Ocata into the 'Unmaintained' phase on 1 June 2020?


[a] 
https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#unmaintained


> 
> [1] https://releases.openstack.org/
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:fix-stable-gate+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
> [3] https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/e477d0919ff14eea9cd8a6235ea00c3d/log/logs/devstacklog.txt#18575
> [4] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/726931/
> [5] https://opendev.org/openstack/requirements/src/branch/stable/ocata/upper-constraints.txt
> 
> -gmann
> 




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