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+1 for community contribs and a common place for them to be sourced.

From: Devananda van der Veen [mailto:devananda.vdv at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 5:03 PM
To: OpenStack Development Mailing List
Subject: [openstack-dev] [Ironic] handling drivers that will not be third-party tested

I'd like to bring up the topic of drivers which, for one reason or another, are probably never going to have third party CI testing.

Take for example the iBoot driver proposed here:
  https://review.openstack.org/50977

I would like to encourage this type of driver as it enables individual contributors, who may be using off-the-shelf or home-built systems, to benefit from Ironic's ability to provision hardware, even if that hardware does not have IPMI or another enterprise-grade out-of-band management interface. However, I also don't expect the author to provide a full third-party CI environment, and as such, we should not claim the same level of test coverage and consistency as we would like to have with drivers in the gate.

As it is, Ironic already supports out-of-tree drivers. A python module that registers itself with the appropriate entrypoint will be made available if the ironic-conductor service is configured to load that driver. For what it's worth, I recall Nova going through a very similar discussion over the last few cycles...

So, why not just put the driver in a separate library on github or stackforge?


-Devananda
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