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On 10/17/19 08:39, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> This was brought up in the nova meeting today [1] as:
> 
> "Do we have a particular stance on features to the libvirt driver for 
> non-integration tested configurations, e.g. lxc [2] and xen [3], meaning 
> if they are trivial enough do we just say the driver's quality warning 
> on startup is sufficient to let them land since these are changes from 
> casual contributors scratching an itch?"
> 
> We agreed to move this to the mailing list.
> 
> We don't have tempest jobs for the libvirt+lxc or libvirt+xen 
> configurations (Citrix used to host 3rd party CI for the latter) and for 
> the changes referenced they are from part-time contributors, minor and 
> self-contained, and therefore I wouldn't expect them to build CI jobs 
> for those configurations or stand up 3rd party CI.
> 
> There are cases in the past where we've held features out due to lack of 
> CI, e.g. live migration support in the vSphere driver. That's quite a 
> bit different in my opinion because (1) it's a much more complicated 
> feature, (2) there already was 3rd party CI for the vSphere driver and 
> (3) there is a big rich corporation maintaining the driver so I figured 
> they could pony up the resources to make that testing happen (and it 
> eventually did).
> 
> For these other small changes are we OK with letting them in knowing 
> that the libvirt driver already logs a quality warning on startup for 
> these configs [4]? In this case I am but wanted to ask and I don't think 
> this sets a precedent as not all changes are equal.

I'm OK with this and I think the quality warning sets an appropriate 
expectation. As I mentioned in the meeting, my opinion is I think 
sufficiently trivial changes are fine on this basis. I also wouldn't try 
to set a hard precedent because each thing needs review on whether it's 
"trivial", but I support a spirit of accepting simple changes without 
requiring full blown 3rd party CI, given the quality warnings we have 
for the configs mentioned.

-melanie

> [1] 
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/nova/2019/nova.2019-10-17-14.00.log.html#l-287 
> 
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/667976/
> [3] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/687827/
> [4] 
> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/1a226aaa9e8c969ddfdfe198c36f7966b1f692f3/nova/virt/libvirt/driver.py#L609 
> 
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