<div dir="ltr"><div>I didn't notice I didn't include tags in the title until I hit the send button...<br></div><div>I'll start a different thread with the appropriate tag included in the title.</div><div>Sorry for the noise ! </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 5:32 PM Takashi Kajinami <<a href="mailto:tkajinam@redhat.com">tkajinam@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In Puppet OpenStack projects we have multiple modules to support multiple OpenStack components.</div><div>However unfortunately some of these have not been attracting enough interest from developers and</div><div>have been unmaintained.</div><div><br></div><div>During the past few cycles we retired a few incomplete modules but I'm wondering if we can retire</div><div>a few unmaintained modules now, to reduce our maintenance/release effort.</div><div><br></div><div>I checked the modules we have currently, and I think the following three can be first candidates.</div><div><div>- puppet-murano</div><div>- puppet-rally<br></div><div>- puppet-tacker</div></div><div><br></div><div>We haven't seen any feedback from users about these modules for a long time. Most of the changes</div><div>for the past 2~3 years are proposed by me but I am not really using these components.</div><div><br></div><div>These modules do not have proper test coverage and it's quite difficult for us to catch any breakage and</div><div>honestly I'm not quite sure these modules can work properly with the latest code. Actually we've often</div><div>caught up with the latest requirements several years after the change was made in the software side,</div><div>and I'm afraid these are not well-maintained.<br></div><div><br></div><div>eg.</div><div> - support for tacker-conductor was added 4 years after the service was added</div><div> - we didn't noticed that the openstack plugin was split out from the core rally package for several years<br></div><div><br></div><div>If anybody has concerns with retiring these modules, then please let us know. If we don't hear any objections</div><div>for a while, then I'll start proposing changes for project retirement.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Takashi<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>----------</div><div>Takashi Kajinami</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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