[openstack-dev] [Cinder] Cutoff deadlines for cinder drivers

Deepak Shetty dpkshetty at gmail.com
Tue Jan 20 06:46:26 UTC 2015


Just so that people following this thread know about the final decision,
Per https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/tested-3rdParty-drivers#Deadlines
the deadline for CI is extended to Mar. 3, 2015 for all volume drivers.

<snip>
Deadlines

All volume drivers
<https://github.com/openstack/cinder/tree/master/cinder/volume/drivers>
need to have a CI by end of* K-3, March 19th 2015*.* Failure will result in
removal in the Kilo release.* Discussion regarding this was in the
#openstack-meeting IRC room during the Cinder meeting. Read discussion logs
<http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-01-14-16.00.log.html#l-21>

</snip>

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Mike Perez <thingee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09:03 Mon 12 Jan     , Erlon Cruz wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Thanks for answering my questions. I have 2 points:
> >
> > 1 - This (remove drivers without CI) is a way impacting change to be
> > implemented without exhausting notification and discussion on the mailing
> > list. I myself was in the meeting but this decision wasn't crystal clear.
> > There must be other driver maintainers completely unaware of this.
>
> I agree that the mailing list has not been exhausted, however, just
> reaching
> out to the mailing list is not good enough. My instructions back in
> November
> 19th [1][2] were that we need to email individual maintainers and the
> openstack-dev list. That was not done. As far as I'm concerned, we can't
> stick
> to the current deadline for existing drivers. I will bring this up in the
> next
> Cinder meeting.
>
> > 2 - Build a CI infrastructure and have people to maintain a the CI for a
> > new driver in a 5 weeks frame. Not all companies has the knowledge and
> > resources necessary to this in such sort period. We should consider a
> grace
> > release period, i.e. drivers entering on K, have until L to implement
> > theirs CIs.
>
> New driver maintainers have until March 19th. [3] That's around 17 weeks
> since
> we discussed this in November [2]. This is part the documentation for how
> to
> contribute a driver [4], which links to the third party requirement
> deadline
> [3].
>
> [1] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2014/cinder.2014-11-19-16.00.html
> [2] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2014/cinder.2014-11-19-16.00.log.html#l-34
> [3] -
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/tested-3rdParty-drivers#Deadlines
> [4] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/how-to-contribute-a-driver
>
> --
> Mike Perez
>
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