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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Wesley Hayutin <whayutin at redhat.com> wrote:
> Thanks Marius for sending this out and kicking off a conversation.
>
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 12:56 PM, Marius Cornea <mariusc at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone and Happy New Year!
>>
>> As the migration of tripleo-upgrade repo to the openstack namespace is
>> now complete I think it's the time to create a Pike branch to capture
>> the current state so we can use it for Pike testing and keep the
>> master branch for Queens changes. The update/upgrade steps are
>> changing between versions and the aim of branching the repo is to keep
>> the update/upgrade steps clean per branch to avoid using conditionals
>> based on release. Also tripleo-upgrade should be compatible with
>> different tools used for deployment(tripleo-quickstart, infrared,
>> manual deployments) which use different vars for the version release
>> so in case of using conditionals we would need extra steps to
>> normalize these variables.
>
>
> I understand the desire to create a branch to protect the work that has been
> done previously.
> The interesting thing is that you guys are proposing to use a branched
> ansible role with
> a branchless upstream project.  I want to make sure we have enough review so
> that we don't hit issues
> in the future.   Maybe that is OK, but I have at least one concern.
>
> My conern is about gating the tripleo-upgrade role and it's branches.  When
> tripleo-quickstart is changed
> which is branchless we will be have to kick off a job for each
> tripleo-upgrade branch?  That immediately doubles
> the load on gates.

I think it would probably be the same when using multiple release
conditionals, we'd still have to trigger one job/release if we wanted
full coverage.

> It's extemely important to properly gate this role against the versions of
> TripleO and OSP.  I see very limited
> check jobs and gate jobs on tripleo-upgrades atm.  I have only found [1].
> I think we need to see some external and internal
> jobs checking and gating this role with comments posted to changes.
>
> [1]
> https://review.rdoproject.org/jenkins/job/gate-tripleo-ci-centos-7-containers-multinode-upgrades-pike/
>
>
>>
>>
>> I wanted to bring this topic up for discussion to see if branching is
>> the proper thing to do here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marius
>>
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