[openstack-dev] Let's drop the postgresql gate job

Michael Still mikal at stillhq.com
Thu Aug 18 20:44:47 UTC 2016


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:00 AM, Matt Riedemann <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
wrote:

> It's that time of year again to talk about killing this job, at least from
> the integrated gate (move it to experimental for people that care about
> postgresql, or make it gating on a smaller subset of projects like oslo.db).
>
> The postgresql job used to have three interesting things about it:
>
> 1. It ran keystone with eventlet (which is no longer a thing).
> 2. It runs the n-api-meta service rather than using config drive.
> 3. It uses postgresql for the database.
>
> So #1 is gone, and for #3, according to the April 2016 user survey (page
> 40) [1], 4% of reporting deployments are using it in production.
>
> I don't think we're running n-api-meta in any other integrated gate jobs,
> but I'm pretty sure there is at least one neutron job out there that's
> running with it that way. We could also consider making the nova-net dsvm
> full gate job run n-api-meta, or vice-versa with the neutron dsvm full gate
> job.
>

We do now have functional testing of the metadata server though, so perhaps
that counts as coverage here?


> We also have to consider that with HP public cloud being gone as a node
> provider and we've got fewer test nodes to run with, we have to make tough
> decisions about which jobs we're going to run in the integrated gate.
>
> I'm bringing this up again because Nova has a few more jobs it would like
> to make voting on it's repo (neutron LB and live migration, at least in the
> check queue) but there are concerns about adding yet more jobs that each
> change has to get through before it's merged, which means if anything goes
> wrong in any of those we can have a 24 hour turnaround on getting an
> approved change back through the gate.
>
> [1] https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April-2016-User-Surv
> ey-Report.pdf


Michael

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