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On 08/18/2016 02:22 PM, Sean Dague wrote:
> On 08/18/2016 11:00 AM, Matt Riedemann 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 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-Survey-Report.pdf
> 
> +1.
> 
> Postgresql in the gate hasn't provided any real value in a long time
> (tempest just really can't tickle the differences between the dbs,
> especially as projects put much better input validation in place).
> During icehouse the job was even accidentally running mysql for 6 weeks,
> and no one noticed.

Devstack Default change proposed - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/357446/
Devstack Gate default change proposed -
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/357443/
Project-config change proposed - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/357444

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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