Open Stack

I didn't notice I didn't include tags in the title until I hit the send
button...
I'll start a different thread with the appropriate tag included in the
title.
Sorry for the noise !

On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM 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
>
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