Hi Takashi,

We're still using puppet-murano. If there's any specific issues, I'd
be happy to look into them, but it's working OK for us currently.

cheers,
Andy

On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 19:36, Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam@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
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> Takashi Kajinami