[all][stable] Moving the stable/ocata to 'Unmaintained' phase and then EOL

Slawek Kaplonski skaplons at redhat.com
Thu May 28 21:31:46 UTC 2020


Hi,

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 02:06:08PM -0400, Brian Rosmaita wrote:
> On 5/28/20 1:03 PM, Ghanshyam Mann wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > 
> > Ocata is in the 'Extended Maintenance' phase[1] but its gate is broken and difficult to fix now.
> > 
> > The main issue started for gate is about Tempest and its deps constraint is correctly used on Ocata or not.
> > We fixed most of those issues when things started failing during py2 drop[2].
> > 
> > But now things are broken due to newer stestr is installed in Ocata jobs[2]. As Sean also mentioned in this
> > backport[4] that stestr is not constraint in Ocata[5] as it was not in g-r that time so cannot be added in u-c.
> > 
> > Tempest old tag cannot be fixed to have that with cap on the tempest side.
> > 
> > The only option left to unblock the gate is to remove the integration testing from Ocata gate. But it will untested after that
> > as we cannot say unit testing is enough to mark it tested.  At least from QA perspective, I would not say it is tested
> > if there is no integration job running there.
> > 
> > Keeping it untested (no integration testing) and saying it is Maintained in the community can be very confusing things.
> > I think its time to move it to the 'Unmaintained' phase and then EOL. Thought?
> 
> +1000

+1 from the Neutron too. I checked recently that we don't have any new
patches merged to Ocata since around October 2019.
> 
> It would be really helpful if we could make this transition as soon as
> possible.  I don't see any reason to delay, particularly since the policy
> [a] allows a transition back to EM should maintainers step up in the next
> six months.
> 
> How about putting Ocata into the 'Unmaintained' phase on 1 June 2020?
> 
> 
> [a] https://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/stable-branches.html#unmaintained
> 
> 
> > 
> > [1] https://releases.openstack.org/
> > [2] https://review.opendev.org/#/q/topic:fix-stable-gate+(status:open+OR+status:merged)
> > [3] https://zuul.opendev.org/t/openstack/build/e477d0919ff14eea9cd8a6235ea00c3d/log/logs/devstacklog.txt#18575
> > [4] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/726931/
> > [5] https://opendev.org/openstack/requirements/src/branch/stable/ocata/upper-constraints.txt
> > 
> > -gmann
> > 
> 
> 

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Slawek Kaplonski
Senior software engineer
Red Hat




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