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On 06/16/2017 09:51 AM, Sean McGinnis wrote:
>>
>> It would be useful to provide detailed examples. Everything is trade
>> offs, and having the conversation in the abstract is very difficult to
>> understand those trade offs.
>>
>> 	-Sean
>>
> 
> We've had this issue in Cinder and os-brick. Usually around Ceph, but if
> you follow the user survey, that's the most popular backend.
> 
> The problem we see is the tempest test that covers this is non-voting.
> And there have been several cases so far where this non-voting job does
> not pass, due to a legitimate failure, but the tempest patch merges anyway.
> 
> 
> To be fair, these failures usually do point out actual problems that need
> to be fixed. Not always, but at least in a few cases. But instead of it
> being addressed first to make sure there is no disruption, it's suddenly
> a blocking issue that holds up everything until it's either reverted, skipped,
> or the problem is resolved.
> 
> Here's one recent instance: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/471352/

Sure, if ceph is the primary concern, that feels like it should be a
reasonable specific thing to fix. It's not a grand issue, it's a
specific mismatch on what configs should be common.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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