[oslo][TC] Dropping lower-constraints testing

Moises Guimaraes de Medeiros moguimar at redhat.com
Fri Dec 18 19:30:01 UTC 2020


+1

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 4:46 PM Ghanshyam Mann <gmann at ghanshyammann.com>
wrote:

>  ---- On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:54:26 -0600 hberaud <hberaud at redhat.com>
> wrote ----
>  > Hello,
>  > As you already surely know, we (the openstack project) currently face
> some issues with our lower-constraints jobs due to pip's latest  resolver
> feature.
>  > By discussing this topic with Thierry Carrez (ttx) from an oslo point
> of view, we reached the same conclusion that it is more appropriate to drop
> this kind of tests because the complexity and recurring pain neededto
> maintain them now exceeds the benefits provided by this mechanismes.
>  > Also we should notice that the number of active maintainers is
> declining, so we think that this is the shortest path to solve this problem
> on oslo for now and for the future too.
>  >
>  > In a first time I tried to fix our gates by fixing our
> lower-constraints project by project but with around ~36 projects to
> maintain this is a painful task, especially due to nested oslo layers
> inside oslo himself... I saw the face of the hell of dependencies.
>  >
>  > So, in a second time I submitted a series of patches to drop these
> tests [1].
>  > But before moving further with that we would appreciate discussing this
> with the TC. For now the patches are ready and we just have to push the
> good button accordingly to our choices (+W or abandon).
>  >
>  > Normally all the oslo projects that need to be fixed are covered by [1].
>  >
>  > Thoughts?
>
> +1, I think it's not worth to keep maintaining them which is taking too
> much effort.
>
> -gmann
>
>  >
>  > Thanks for reading.
>  >
>  > [1]
> https://review.opendev.org/q/topic:%22oslo_lc_drop%22+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged)
>  > --
>  > Hervé BeraudSenior Software Engineer at Red Hatirc: hberaudhttps://
> github.com/4383/https://twitter.com/4383hberaud
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Moisés Guimarães

Software Engineer

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com>

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