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Some pointers for perusal as to the observed problems would be helpful,
Thanks!

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:09 AM Chuck Short <zulcss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mohammed,
>
> I might be able to help where can I find this info?
>
> Thanks
> chuck
>
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Mohammed Naser <mnaser at vexxhost.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'll get right into the point.
>>
>> At the moment, the Puppet OpenStack modules don't have much
>> contributors which can help maintain the Ubuntu support.  We deploy on
>> CentOS (so we try to get all the fixes in that we can) and there is a
>> lot of activity from the TripleO team as well which does their
>> deployments on CentOS which means that the CentOS support is very
>> reliable and CI is always sought after.
>>
>> However, starting a while back, we started seeing occasional failures
>> with Ubuntu deploys which lead us set the job to non-voting.  At the
>> moment, the Puppet integration jobs for Ubuntu are always failing
>> because of some Tempest issue.  This means that with every Puppet
>> change, we're wasting ~80 minutes of CI run time for a job that will
>> always fail.
>>
>> We've had a lot of support from the packaging team at RDO (which are
>> used in Puppet deployments) and they run our integration before
>> promoting packages which makes it helpful in finding issues together.
>> However, we do not have that with Ubuntu neither has there been anyone
>> who is taking initiative to look and investigate those issues.
>>
>> I understand that there are users out there who use Ubuntu with Puppet
>> OpenStack modules.  We need your help to come and try and clear those
>> issues out. We'd be more than happy to give assistance to lead you in
>> the right way to help fix those issues.
>>
>> Unfortunately, if we don't have any folks stepping up to resolving
>> this, we'll be forced to drop all CI for Ubuntu and make a note to
>> users that Ubuntu is not fully tested and hope that as users run into
>> issues, they can contribute fixes back (or that someone can work on
>> getting Ubuntu gating working again).
>>
>> Thanks for reading through this, I am quite sad that we'd have to drop
>> support for such a major operating system, but there's only so much we
>> can do with a much smaller team.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Mohammed
>>
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