[openstack-dev] [cinder] Request exemption for removal of NetApp FC drivers (no voting CI)

Duncan Thomas duncan.thomas at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 13:28:17 UTC 2015


Timothy

You are very welcome to add it to the meeting agenda if you feel it should
be discussed - the agenda is open and managed on the wiki.

On 23 March 2015 at 15:15, ClaytonLuce, Timothy <
Timothy.ClaytonLuce at netapp.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> Did not see a response to this request.  Please respond, we can discuss in
> the Cinder Core meeting this week.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ClaytonLuce, Timothy [mailto:Timothy.ClaytonLuce at netapp.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 5:27 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] Request exemption for removal of
> NetApp FC drivers (no voting CI)
>
> Mike,
>
> I request the same consideration being given to the Oracle driver team:
>
> > The tag for Kilo in Cinder has already happened, so it's too late to
> revert. We
> > may be able to revisit this in Kilo RC, but I want to see your CI
> reporting
> > reliably now to then to Cinder reviews.
>
> We are going to try by hook or crook to scrounge/borrow equipment to put a
> quick and dirty CI together and get it reliably reporting.
>
> Tim
> ________________________________________
> From: Mike Perez <thingee at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 2:55 PM
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)
> Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [cinder] Request exemption for removal of
> NetApp FC drivers (no voting CI)
>
> On 12:33 Fri 20 Mar     , ClaytonLuce, Timothy wrote:
> > I'd like to point out that for NetApp FC drivers NetApp has been in
> > discussions and updating progress on these drivers since their
> submission.
> >
> > I will point out a discussion in the Nov Core meeting where I brought up
> the
> > challenge around FC environments and the response I received:
>
> <snip>
>
> > NetApp has in good faith been working toward implementing a CI for FC,
> > I won't go into the challenges of spending $$ for lab equipment to build
> out
> > a scalable quality CI system but suffice it to say the lab equipment is
> on
> > order and scheduled for arrival the first part of April, at which point
> we
> > can put in place the CI for FC.
>
> 1) We've been talking about CI's since Feburary 2014. That's really too bad
>    this took so long. The deadline itself has been overly announced on the
>    mailing list and Cinder IRC meetings. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
>
> 2) We have a number of FC drivers today that had no problem meeting this
>    deadline that was expressed in November 2014.
>
> 3) I've barely received updates from Netapp folks on progress here. I'm the
>    only point of contact, so if you weren't talking to me, then it's
> unknown.
>    I've expressed this to a number of your engineers and in my
> announcements
>    about the CI deadline [8]
>
> I had to engage with Netapp to get updates, no one came to me with
> updates. The
> last update I heard from one of your engineers was, we bought the hardware,
> but it's just sitting there. That is not acceptable with us being past the
> deadline, and shows a clear sign of this not being a priority.
>
> > NetApp has been very forthcoming in our progress and have gotten all our
> > other CI systems in place for 7-mode iSCSI/NFS, cDOT iSCSI/NFS and
> E-Series.
> >
> > I respectfully request that NetApp FC be removed from this list of
> drivers to
> > be removed for Kilo and placed back in the releaes and we can negotiate
> an
> > agreed upon time as to when the CI system for these drivers will be in
> place.
>
> There will be no negotiating on what is an acceptable timeline for Netapp.
> What
> we all agreed to as a *community* back at the summit and Cinder IRC meeting
> was it.
>
>
> [1] - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/tested-3rdParty-drivers
> [2] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-01-21-16.00.log.html
> [3] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-02-04-16.04.log.html
> [4] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-02-18-16.00.log.html
> [5] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-02-25-16.00.log.html
> [6] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-03-04-16.00.log.html
> [7] -
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/cinder/2015/cinder.2015-03-18-16.00.log.html
> [8] -
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-January/054614.html
>
> --
> Mike Perez
>
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