[oslo][TC] Dropping lower-constraints testing
Slawek Kaplonski
skaplons at redhat.com
Wed Jan 6 12:43:18 UTC 2021
Hi,
Dnia środa, 6 stycznia 2021 13:00:31 CET Herve Beraud pisze:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Here is an email to officialize our position on Olso concerning our
> lower-constraints testing policy.
> Indeed we reached a consensus during our last meeting and all the Oslo
> cores who spoke agreed with this decision to drop the L.C tests [1].
>
> So we already started to drop lower-constraints jobs on Oslo to unlock our
> gates.
Sorry if my question shouldn't be in that thread but does that mean that other
projects should/can drop lower constraints jobs too? Is it some general,
OpenStack wide decision or it depends on the project?
>
> Thanks to everyone who joined the discussion and thanks for reading!
>
> [1]
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/oslo/2021/oslo.2021-01-04-16.00.log.
> txt #topic Dropping lower-constraints testing
>
> Le ven. 18 déc. 2020 à 20:34, Moises Guimaraes de Medeiros <
>
> moguimar at redhat.com> a écrit :
> > +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%2
> >> 0status: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>
> >
> > <https://red.ht/sig>
>
> --
> Hervé Beraud
> Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
> irc: hberaud
> https://github.com/4383/
> https://twitter.com/4383hberaud
--
Slawek Kaplonski
Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat
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