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Hi Takashi,

We're currently using Wallaby, but looking to move to Zed soon.

Please reach out to me if I can give you a hand with this.

cheers,
Andy


On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 at 20:32, Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thank you for the response. May I know which version you are currently using ?
>
> We can keep puppet-murano for now as there is a user(or some users, hopefully) using the module.
> However please note there is no functional test coverage(integration tests/acceptance tests) to test
> actual deployments in our CI. We probably better try enabling a few tests to test actual deployments.
> I'll look into it when I get time, and might ask for your help in case I face any problems.
>
> Thank you,
> Takashi
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:12 PM Andy Botting <andy at andybotting.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Takashi,
>>
>> We're still using puppet-murano. If there's any specific issues, I'd
>> be happy to look into them, but it's working OK for us currently.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 at 19:36, Takashi Kajinami <tkajinam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> > In Puppet OpenStack projects we have multiple modules to support multiple OpenStack components.
>> > However unfortunately some of these have not been attracting enough interest from developers and
>> > have been unmaintained.
>> >
>> > During the past few cycles we retired a few incomplete modules but I'm wondering if we can retire
>> > a few unmaintained modules now, to reduce our maintenance/release effort.
>> >
>> > I checked the modules we have currently, and I think the following three can be first candidates.
>> > - puppet-murano
>> > - puppet-rally
>> > - puppet-tacker
>> >
>> > We haven't seen any feedback from users about these modules for a long time. Most of the changes
>> > for the past 2~3 years are proposed by me but I am not really using these components.
>> >
>> > These modules do not have proper test coverage and it's quite difficult for us to catch any breakage and
>> > honestly I'm not quite sure these modules can work properly with the latest code. Actually we've often
>> > caught up with the latest requirements several years after the change was made in the software side,
>> > and I'm afraid these are not well-maintained.
>> >
>> > eg.
>> >  - support for tacker-conductor was added 4 years after the service was added
>> >  - we didn't noticed that the openstack plugin was split out from the core rally package for several years
>> >
>> > If anybody has concerns with retiring these modules, then please let us know. If we don't hear any objections
>> > for a while, then I'll start proposing changes for project retirement.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Takashi
>> > --
>> > ----------
>> > Takashi Kajinami
>>