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On 11/19/2015 09:32 AM, Kevin Carter wrote:
> I don't believe we should have a class system in the OS's that we choose 
> to support. If we're going to bring in a new OS I think we should first 
> bring it in using non-voting jobs however once all of the bits have been 
> finalized the supported OS should be able to pass the same sets of tests 
> as everything else. Now, we may run into various applications that may 
> not be compatible or available on different distros, which is fine, but 
> in that case we should call out the deficiencies marking a specific job 
> as non-voting until we can see about resolving the issues. I would like 
> to avoid creating second class operating systems within OSA if at all 
> possible.
> 
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> Kevin Carter
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> On 11/19/2015 09:21 AM, Major Hayden wrote:
>> On 11/18/2015 04:19 AM, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
>>> The current community has done some research into appropriate patterns to use and has a general idea of how to do it - but in order to actually execute there need to be enough people who commit to actually maintaining the work once it's done. We don't want to carry the extra code if we don't also pick up extra contributors to maintain the code.
>>
>> Should there be a concept of primary and secondary operating systems supported by openstack-ansible?  I'm thinking something similar to the tiers of hypervisors in OpenStack where some are tested heavily with gating while others have a lighter amount of testing.
>>
>> We might be able to have something along the lines of:
>>
>>    * Primary OS: Used in gate checks, heavily tested
>>    * Secondary OS: Not used in gate checks, lightly tested
>>    * Tertiary OS: Support in WIP state, not tested
>>
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I would like this to be the option we go with.  I've wanted to add
another OS to OSA but need to fulfil other prerequisites (adding the OS
to disk-image-builder) but once I do I'll be working on adding support
for it, have some vacation coming up...

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