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On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 10:48 PM Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam at redhat.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've not heard any additional feedback so far, so I'd like to decide the
> next steps about
> the three modules.
>
> 1. puppet-murano
> We'll continue maintaining this module based on the response by Andy.
> I've managed to restore acceptance tests for puppet-murano[1] which would
> allow us to catch
> quite essential deployment problems.
> We might need to address the remaining two problems but we don't have
> capacity to address
> these two immediately so I'll leave these two as future TODO. It'd be nice
> if anyone interested
> can help us with these items.
>  - acceptance tests in Ubuntu are still broken
>  - no functional tests are enabled (murano is still disabled in
> integration tests)
>
> [1] https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/puppet-murano/+/872102
>
>
> 2. puppet-rally
> I've proposed a few critical bug fixes [2] during this cycle and I think
> we should create a release
> containing these fixes. So I'll retire this module after the Antelope
> release.
>
> [2] example https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/puppet-rally/+/869628
>
>
> 3. puppet-tacker
> We haven't heard any actual objection to retiring this module and we don't
> see any critical
> fixes/features merged during this cycle so I'll retire this module
> immediately.
> @Yasufumi Ogawa <yasufum.o at gmail.com> Do you have any update about the
> confirmation ?
>
> In case anyone has additional concerns, then please let me know.
>

Because I've not heard any objections for almost 1 month, I've submitted
the changes to retire
puppet-tacker and will get these merged before the Antelope release.
In case you have any concerns then please let me know in this thread or in
these reviewers.

https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:retire-puppet-tacker


>
> Thank you,
> Takashi Kajinami
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:34 PM Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> In Puppet OpenStack projects we have multiple modules to support multiple
>> OpenStack components.
>> However unfortunately some of these have not been attracting enough
>> interest from developers and
>> have been unmaintained.
>>
>> During the past few cycles we retired a few incomplete modules but I'm
>> wondering if we can retire
>> a few unmaintained modules now, to reduce our maintenance/release effort.
>>
>> I checked the modules we have currently, and I think the following three
>> can be first candidates.
>> - puppet-murano
>> - puppet-rally
>> - puppet-tacker
>>
>> We haven't seen any feedback from users about these modules for a long
>> time. Most of the changes
>> for the past 2~3 years are proposed by me but I am not really using these
>> components.
>>
>> These modules do not have proper test coverage and it's quite difficult
>> for us to catch any breakage and
>> honestly I'm not quite sure these modules can work properly with the
>> latest code. Actually we've often
>> caught up with the latest requirements several years after the change was
>> made in the software side,
>> and I'm afraid these are not well-maintained.
>>
>> eg.
>>  - support for tacker-conductor was added 4 years after the service was
>> added
>>  - we didn't noticed that the openstack plugin was split out from the
>> core rally package for several years
>>
>> If anybody has concerns with retiring these modules, then please let us
>> know. If we don't hear any objections
>> for a while, then I'll start proposing changes for project retirement.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Takashi
>> --
>> ----------
>> Takashi Kajinami
>>
>
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