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On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 14:18 +0100, Julien Vey wrote:
> I agree gating is a great feature but it is not useful for every
> project and as Adrian said, not understood by everyone.
> I think many Solum users, and PaaS users in general, are
> single-project/single-build/simple git worklow and do not care about
> gating.

This is 100% correct.

> I see 2 drawbacks with Zuul :
> - Tenant Isolation : How do we allow access on zuul (and jenkins) for
> a specific tenant in isolation to the others tenants using Solum.
> - Build customization : One of the biggest advantage of Jenkins is its
> ecosystem and the many build customization it offers. Using zuul will
> prohibit this.

Not sure I understand this part... Zuul works *with* Jenkins. It does
not replace it.

> About Gerrit, I think it is also a little too much. Many users have
> their own reviewing system, Pull requests with github, bitbucket or
> stash, their own instance of gerrit, or even a custom git workflow.
> Gerrit would be a great feature for future versions of Solum. but only
> as an optionnal one, we should not force people into it.

Completely agreed. Frankly, both Gerrit and Jenkins are a giant pain in
the ass to install, maintain, and configure (hmm, which Java/Prolog
programs aren't, I wonder?).

Basing Solum's *default* workflow on these tools would be a mistake IMO.

Best,
-jay