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On 02/13/2014 09:51 AM, Avishay Traeger wrote:
> "Walter A. Boring IV" <walter.boring at hp.com> wrote on 02/13/2014 06:59:38
> PM:
>> What I would do different for the Icehouse release is this:
>>
>> If a driver doesn't pass the certification test by IceHouse RC1, then we
>> have a bug filed
>> against the driver.   I would also put a warning message in the log for
>> that driver that it
>> doesn't pass the certification test.  I would not remove it from the
>> codebase.
>>
>> Also:
>>      if a driver hasn't even run the certification test by RC1, then we
>> mark the driver as
>> uncertified and deprecated in the code and throw an error at driver init
>> time.
>> We can have a option in cinder.conf that says
>> ignore_uncertified_drivers=False.
>> If an admin wants to ignore the error, they set the flag to True, and we
>> let the driver init at next startup.
>> The admin then takes full responsibility for running uncertified code.
>>
>>     I think removing the drivers outright is premature for Icehouse,
>> since the certification process is a new thing.
>> For Juno, we remove any drivers that are still marked as uncertified and
>> haven't run the tests.
>>
>> I think the purpose of the tests is to get vendors to actually run their
>> code through tempest and
>> prove to the community that they are willing to show that they are
>> fixing their code.  At the end of the day,
>> it better serves the community and Cinder if we have many working
> drivers.
>> My $0.02,
>> Walt
>
> I like this.  Make that $0.04 now :)

I wrote a bit of code so we had something to discuss if anyone thinks 
it's a good enough
compromise.
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/73464/

Walt