On 14/03/2019 07:00, Akihiro Motoki wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 8:15 AM Graham Hayes <gr@ham.ie
> <mailto:gr@ham.ie>> wrote:
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>     On 13/03/2019 22:57, Monty Taylor wrote:
>     > Hey all!
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>     > NodeJS version 4 isn't a supported version anymore - and what's more
>     > there are no packages for it for bionic.
>     >
>     > To that end, all of the UI projects that are currently requesting
>     > node_version: 4 in their npm jobs [0] or who are using any of the
>     > templates that start with nodejs4- [1] are about to have a large
>     amount
>     > of sad.
>     >
>     > I would personally recommend updating to node_version: 10 - since
>     that's
>     > the most recent LTS and would give us until 2021-04-01 [2] before we
>     > need to deal with things again.
>     >
>     > BUT - I don't have a real opinion on course of action - I figure
>     that's
>     > likely something to be discussed amongst the various UI projects. The
>     > only thing I have an opinion on is that the outcome probably shouldn't
>     > be "shrug, nodejs4 is fine". :)
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>     Yeah - that sounds like something we should upgrade. Is there any
>     preferred way the horizon team has for us to update this? Any
>     known pitfalls?
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>     I am honestly not sure what will happen if we go from 4 -> 10
>     (and for most of our team the horizon plugin is a blackbox),
>     so this is a trip into the unknown :/
>
>
> Yeah, we should upgrade nodejs considering its lifecycle.
> Unfortunately, the horizon team have not been aware of this so far....
> We need to migrate nodejs jobs to bionic at the early phase of Train.
> All folks who set up JavaScript stuffs have gone and we need volunteers.
> I added this to the horizon PTG topics.
>
> Akihiro

In https://review.openstack.org/642272 I raised the topic of adding node
versions to the PTI for each cycle - some input from horizon folks, or
anyone how knows about node is welcome :)

- Graham

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>     > Monty
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>     http://codesearch.openstack.org/?q=node_version%3A%204&i=nope&files=&repos=
>     > [1] http://codesearch.openstack.org/?q=nodejs4&i=nope&files=&repos=
>     > [2] https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/
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