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On 07/17/2015 11:27 PM, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> One of the concerns raised by TC in response to the proposal to add
> Fuel to OpenStack Projects [0] is the fact that fuel-library includes
> copies of upstream Puppet modules, most importantly from OpenStack
> Puppet [1].
>
> [0] https://review.openstack.org/199232 [1]
> https://lwn.net/Articles/648331/
>
> I have brought this up in the Fuel weekly meeting [2], and we have
> agreed to start implementing the proposal from Alex Schultz to use
> puppet-librarian to manage upstream modules [3].
>
> [2]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/fuel/2015/fuel.2015-07-16-16.00.log.html#l-245
>
>
> [3]
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-June/067806.html
>
>  We are days away from Feature Freeze for Fuel 7.0 scheduled for July
> 23 [4], so it's not reasonable to make librarian mandatory for all
> upstream modules just yet, but I believe that we should make full
> migration to librarian a blocker requirement for Fuel 8.0.

Thanks for stepping up to address this requested change, Dima. I've 
given a preliminary review to Alex's puppet-librarian patch and things 
look fine from my perspective.

I'm quite interested to know Emilien and Chris Hoge's opinions on this 
direction and proposed timeline.

> [4] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Fuel/7.0_Release_Schedule
>
> In the meanwhile, we're going to try to implement integration of the
> newly added puppet-ironic module under librarian [5][6][7]. [5]
> https://review.openstack.org/194184 [6]
> https://review.openstack.org/202763 [7]
> https://review.openstack.org/202767
>
> To make sure this effort does not block integration of Ironic support
> in Fuel 7.0 and does not impact the Feature Freeze, we've set a
> deadline for this effort until Tuesday July 21. Fuelers and other
> Puppet experts, please help Alex and Pavlo get this done on time by
> reviewing their changes and offering advice. It is a small but
> crucial step towards full convergence with upstream, it would help a
> lot if we could confirm now that this approach is viable.

Agreed, reviews from fuel-core folks would be very much appreciated.

Best,
-jay