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----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> Today Puppet OpenStack CI is running unit and functional test jobs
> against puppet 3 and puppet 4.
> Unit jobs for puppet 4 are currently voting and pretty stable.
> Functional jobs for puppet 4 are not voting but also stable.
> 
> Even if Puppet4 has not been largely adopted by our community [1] yet,
> I would like to encourage our users to upgrade the version of Puppet.
> Fedora ships it by default [2] and for Ubuntu, it's also the default
> since yakkety [3].
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iIQ6YmpdOVctS2-wCV6SGPP1NSj8nKD9nv_xtZH9loY/edit?usp=sharing
> [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=3529
> [3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/puppet
> 
> So here's my proposal, feel free to bring any feedback:
> - For stable/mitaka CI and stable/liberty nothing will change.
> - For current master (future stable/newton in a few months), transform
> non-voting puppet4 jobs into voting and add them to the gate. Also
> keep puppet3 unit tests jobs, as voting.
> - After Newton release (during Ocata cycle), change master CI to only
> gate functional jobs on puppet4 (and remove puppet3 jobs for
> puppet-openstack-integration); but keep puppet3 unit tests jobs, as
> voting.
> - During Ocata cycle, implement a periodic job that will nightly check
> we can deploy with Puppet3. The periodic job is something our
> community interested by Puppet 3 will have to monitor and report any
> new failure so we can address it.
> 
> That way, we tell our users:
> - don't worry if you deploy Liberty, Mitaka, Newton, we will
> officially support Puppet 3.
> - if you plan to deploy Puppet 4, we'll officially support you
> starting from Newton.
> - if you plan to deploy Ocata with Puppet 3, we won't support you
> anymore since our functional testing jobs will be gone. Though we'll
> make our best to be backward compatible thanks to our unit  and
> periodic functional testing jobs.
> 
> Regarding packaging:
> - on Ubuntu, we'll continue rely on what provides Puppetlabs because
> Xenial doesn't provide Puppet4.
> - on CentOS7, we are working on getting Puppet 4 packaged in RDO and
> our CI will certainly use it.
> 
> Any feedback is welcome,

I like the idea. It gives distros enough time to prepare to Puppet 4, and we're supposed to write compatible manifests anyway.

Javier

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> Emilien Macchi
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