Reminder for driver vendors!

We've 2 new drivers proposed for Antelope,

1) HPE XP: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/815582
2) Fungible NVMe TCP: https://review.opendev.org/c/openstack/cinder/+/849143

Note for new and old driver vendors: Along with running the third party CI on cinder gate, we also mandate the CI to be run on os-brick gate since that acts as a surety that your driver works with the existing connector (and might not break later after os-brick release).

Thanks

Rajat Dhasmana

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 2:18 AM Brian Rosmaita <rosmaita.fossdev@gmail.com> wrote:

To all third-party CI maintainers,

As you are aware, cinder third-party CI systems are required to run on
all cinder changes. However, the os-brick library used in cinder CI
testing is the latest appropriate *released* version of os-brick.

Thus, it is possible for changes to be happening in os-brick development
that might impact the functionality of your driver. If you aren't
testing os-brick changes, you won't find out about these until *after*
the next os-brick release, which is bad news all around.

Therefore, at last week's cinder midcycle [0], the cinder project team
agreed to require that cinder third-party CI systems run on all os-brick
changes in addition to all cinder changes. This is a nice-to-have for
the current (Zed) development cycle, but will be required in order for a
driver to be considered 'supported' in the 2023.1 (Antelope) release [1].

If you have comments or concerns about this policy, please reply on the
list to this email or put an item on the agenda [2] for the cinder
weekly meeting.

[0] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinder-zed-midcycles
[1]
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/tested-3rdParty-drivers#What_changes_should_I_test_on.3F
[2] https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/cinder-zed-meetings