[ironic] FFE: Add idrac HW type Redfish virtual media boot interface

Julia Kreger juliaashleykreger at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 12:43:29 UTC 2019


Indeed. Although part of me thinks we need to begin thinking beyond the
named cycle co-ordinated releases. I’m starting to think that it is
providing reduced value due to last minute panic because we should be
focusing on “early” and “often”.

-Julia

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:33 AM Ruby Loo <opensrloo at gmail.com> wrote:

> We've released 13.0.0 and we had been planning on releasing it last week
> (thanks to gate issues things got delayed to this week). Given the late
> request and how everyone has already been working hard, I'd prefer that it
> land in Ussuri and we do a release for that.
>
> Having said that, if two cores are willing to review and do the necessary
> paperwork, that is fine with me :)
>
> --ruby
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 12:58 PM Julia Kreger <juliaashleykreger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am in support of getting this in, but ironic is essentially at the time
>> for our release window for 13.0.0 as we need to create the stable/train
>> branch. To do this will force 13.1 to be the final version to train if we
>> need to back-port this patch. I can review it tonight after my meetings,
>> and possibly Dmitry or another core can review and if they feel that it can
>> be approved tomorrow.
>>
>> I guess the deterrent for me mentally at this point is we’ve already
>> geared documentation towards 13.0.0 being the Train release.
>>
>> -Julia
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 8:10 PM <Richard.Pioso at dell.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I request a late feature freeze exception (FFE) for
>>> https://review.opendev.org/#/c/672498/ -- "Add Redfish vmedia boot
>>> interface to idrac HW type". There is high demand from operators for this
>>> feature. They would be delighted if it were included in Train.
>>>
>>> We believe it is a low risk change, because of the following:
>>>
>>> 1) It affects only the idrac hardware type.
>>> 2) The highest priority boot interfaces supported by the idrac hardware
>>> type remain so. 'ipxe' and 'pxe' continue to have the highest priority, and
>>> the new 'idrac-redfish-virtual-media' has the lowest priority. The new
>>> order from highest to lowest priority is 'ipxe', 'pxe', and
>>> 'idrac-redfish-virtual-media'.
>>> 3) The new interface is based on and almost entirely leverages an
>>> already merged interface implementation, 'redfish-virtual-media'. [1]
>>>
>>> Please let me know if you have any concerns or questions. Thank you for
>>> your consideration.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/638453/
>>>
>>>
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