[openstack-dev] [all][qa] Migrating devstack jobs to Bionic (Ubuntu LTS 18.04)

Ghanshyam Mann gmann at ghanshyammann.com
Tue Nov 6 22:07:30 UTC 2018




 ---- On Wed, 07 Nov 2018 06:51:32 +0900 Slawomir Kaplonski <skaplons at redhat.com> wrote ---- 
 > Hi,
 > 
 > > Wiadomość napisana przez Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> w dniu 06.11.2018, o godz. 22:25:
 > > 
 > > On 2018-11-06 22:05:49 +0100 (+0100), Slawek Kaplonski wrote:
 > > [...]
 > >> also add jobs like "devstack-xenial" and "tempest-full-xenial"
 > >> which projects can use still for some time if their job on Bionic
 > >> would be broken now?
 > > [...]
 > > 
 > > That opens the door to piecemeal migration, which (as we similarly
 > > saw during the Trusty to Xenial switch) will inevitably lead to
 > > projects who no longer gate on Xenial being unable to integration
 > > test against projects who don't yet support Bionic. At the same
 > > time, projects which have switched to Bionic will start merging
 > > changes which only work on Bionic without realizing it, so that
 > > projects which test on Xenial can't use them. In short, you'll be
 > > broken either way. On top of that, you can end up with projects that
 > > don't get around to switching completely before release comes, and
 > > then they're stuck having to manage a test platform transition on a
 > > stable branch.
 > 
 > I understand Your point here but will option 2) from first email lead to the same issues then?

seems so. approach 1 is less risky for such integrated testing issues and requires less work. In approach 1, we can coordinate the base job migration with project side testing with bionic.

-gmann

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 > Slawek Kaplonski
 > Senior software engineer
 > Red Hat
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