On 26. Jan 2022, at 14:35, Sean Mooney <smooney@redhat.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2022-01-26 at 13:26 +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2022-01-26 09:00:05 +0100 (+0100), Slawek Kaplonski wrote:
[...]
Those tests are available only in master branch: [1] and they not
exists in e.g. stable/xena [2].

I'm not sure how those jobs are defined exactly but my guess is
that on those stable branches where it fails it runs openstacksdk
from master branch. So either it should be changed and proper
stable branch of the openstacksdk should be used there or we
should skip those tests when API extension in neuron is not
present.
[...]

I find it intriguing that the SDK has stable branches at all. Isn't
the goal that the latest version of the SDK be able to interface
with multiple versions of OpenStack services, new and old? If we
don't test that the current SDK code works with Neutron from Xena,
then that opens it up to growing serious problems for users.

ya that seam odd to me too.
i would expect sdk to be release independent and work simialr to tempest
where master sdk should be useable with all stable branches.
Having the SDK or tests work out what features are expected to work
sounds like the only sensible solution.

Honestly I have no clue why it evolved this way and therefore can’t really comment on that. Maybe (just maybe) there was something from the Debian (or other distro) packaging pov (stable, not-stable, etc) that somehow leaded to this setup. Otherwise there is absolutely no possibility to limit which version of sdk need to go into which older distro. And since i.e. ansible and openstackclient depend on the sdk things are getting even more interesting. Sdk in this sense is comparable with keystoneauth lib (and actually depend on it). So once we say there are no stable branches of sdk anymore we open even worse can of worms.