[openstack-dev] [ironic] [requirements] moving driver dependencies to global-requirements?

Matthew Thode prometheanfire at gentoo.org
Wed Nov 15 16:08:57 UTC 2017


On 17-11-15 09:32:33, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
> On 10/31/2017 12:11 AM, Richard.Pioso at dell.com wrote:
> > > From: Dmitry Tantsur [mailto:dtantsur at redhat.com]
> > 
> > > Cons:
> > > 1. more work for both the requirements team and the vendor teams
> > 
> > Please elaborate on the additional work you envision for the vendor teams.
> 
> Any requirements updates with have to be submitted to the requirements repo.
> It may take longer (may not).
> 

We (requirements) are prety good about being on top of reviews :P

> > 
> > > 2. inability to use ironic release notes to explain driver requirements changes
> > 
> > Where could that information move to?
> 
> I think it's a generic question, to be honest. We don't inform operators of
> requirements changes via release notes. I don't have an easy answer.
> 

Should each driver have it's own release notes then?  Not sure if that'd help.

> > 
> > > We either will have one list:
> > > 
> > > [extras]
> > > drivers =
> > >     sushy>=a.b
> > >     python-dracclient>=x.y
> > >     python-prolianutils>=v.w
> > >     ...
> > > 
> > > or (and I like this more) we'll have a list per hardware type:
> > > 
> > > [extras]
> > > redfish =
> > >     sushy>=a.b
> > > idrac =
> > >     python-dracclient>=x.y
> > > ilo =
> > >     ...
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > WDYT?
> > > 
> > 
> > Overall, a big +1. I prefer the second approach.
> > 
> > A couple of questions ...
> > 
> > 1. If two (2) hardware types have the same requirement, would they both
> > enter it in their lists?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > 2. And would that be correctly handled?
> 
> Tony checked it (see his response to this thread) - yes.
> 
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