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Hi folks,

i want to raise attention on remaining patches that are needed to 
prevent losing Ceph updates/upgrades in Rocky [1], basically making the 
Ceph upgrade mechanism compatible with config-download. I'd call this a 
semi-FFE, as a few of the patches have characteristics of feature work, 
but at the same time i don't believe we can afford having Ceph 
unupgradable in Rocky, so it has characteristics of a regression bug 
too. I reported a bug [2] and tagged the patches in case we end up 
having to do backports.

Please help with reviews and landing the patches if possible.

<mini-rant-ending-positively>
It would have been better to focus on this earlier in the cycle, but 
majority of Upgrades squad work is exactly this kind of semi-FFE -- 
nontrivial in terms of effort required, but at the same time it's not 
something we can realistically slip into the next release, because it 
would be a regression. This sort of work tends to steal some of our 
focus in N cycle and direct it towards N-1 release (or even older). 
However, i think we've been gradually catching up with the release cycle 
lately, and increased focus on keeping update/upgrade CI green helps us 
catch breakages before they land and saves some person-hours, so i'm 
hoping the future is bright(er) on this.
</mini-rant-ending-positively>

Thanks and have a good day,

Jirka

[1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/topic:external-update-upgrade
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/1783949