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I agree, without support for it I think it's well more then time to remove
it.

Amy (spotz)

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 8:52 AM Jonathan Rosser <jonathan.rosser at rd.bbc.co.uk>
wrote:

>
>
> On 08/03/2019 16:36, Mohammed Naser wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've been trying to avoid writing this email for the longest time
> > ever.  It's really painful to have to reach this state, but I think
> > we've hit a point where we can no longer maintain support for SUSE
> > within OpenStack Ansible.
> >
> > Unfortunately, with the recent layoffs, the OSA team has taken a huge
> > hit in terms of contributors which means that there is far less
> > contributors within the project.  This means that we have less
> > resources to go around and it forces us to focus on a more functional,
> > reliable and well tested set of scenarios.
> >
> > Over the past few cycles, there has been effort to add SUSE support to
> > OpenStack Ansible, during the time that we had maintainers, it was
> > great and SUSE issues were being fixed promptly.  In addition, due to
> > the larger team at the time, we found ourselves having some extra time
> > where we can help unbreak other gates.  Jesse used to call this a
> > "labour of love", which I admired at the time and hoped we continue to
> > do as much as we can of.
> >
> > However, the lack of a committed maintainer for OpenSUSE has resulted
> > in constantly failing jobs[1][2] (which were moved to non-voting,
> > wasting CI resources as no one fixed them).  In addition, it's causing
> > several gate blocks for a few times with no one really finding the
> > time to clean them up.
> >
> > We are resource constrained at this point and we need the resource to
> > go towards making the small subset of supported features functional
> > (i.e. CentOS/Ubuntu).  We struggle with that enough, and there seems
> > to be no deployers that are running SUSE in real life at the moment
> > based on bugs submitted.
> >
> > With that, I propose that we drop SUSE support this cycle.  If anyone
> > would like to volunteer to maintain it, we can review that option, but
> > that would require a serious commitment as we've had maintainers step
> > off and it hurts the velocity of the project as no one can merge code
> > anymore.
> >
> > ..Really wish I didn't have to write this email
> > Mohammed
> >
> > [1]:
> http://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/builds?job_name=openstack-ansible-functional-opensuse-150
> > [2]:
> http://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/builds?job_name=openstack-ansible-functional-opensuse-423
> >
> >
>
> It's now over 12 months since Mohammed posted this and the situation
> remains as described.
>
> It feels like time to reduce the OSA CI surface area to enable patches
> to merge and release contributor cycles for new work such as support for
> Ubuntu Focal and Centos8.
>
> Two alternative patches are proposed, one to remove support immediately
> [1] and another to move the current jobs to non-voting with a view to
> removing them entirely for the Victoria cycle [2].
>
> [1] https://review.opendev.org/725541
> [2] https://review.opendev.org/725598
>
> Jon.
>
>
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