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Hi,

I just registered to this list as someone just raised this topic to my
attention. As one of the people maintaining RDO, I will answer some of
the points raised.
I'm not here to rant, but I get the feeling that you got frustrated by
a bad experience with RDO so let's get on a better footing.

> The Delorean repo is a pretty hilarious combination of old, out of date config files, and a few Mitaka packages thrown in for good measure

Delorean is a continuous delivery platform, and there are multiples
topics mixed up here:
* old, out of date config files => RDO strategy is to rely on external
installer (packstack or RDO Manager) to deploy and configure services.
So yes, some out-of-date config files could be undetected, we try to
fix them but AFAIK no tickets were opened.
* packages are automatically built for every commit, so when Liberty
was branched, there was a delay between we fixed delorean
configuration to track the stable/liberty branch rather than master.
Some Mitaka commits were built as packages, but it was fixed rather quickly.


> The Red Hat packages, on the other hand, are missing quite a few crucial deps, including the PyMySQL deps.

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/python-PyMySQL/
Note this topic was raised in RDO list few weeks ago while we fixed
this with Fedora/RHEL python MySQL package maintainers months ahead of
this discussion.
And RDO repositories should have all the dependencies available, but
yes, if you use Fedora repositories it could be out-of-sync as we're
dependent from the Fedora Reviewing process.

Yes, our process review can be quite long and I do most of the reviews
here, but it's got better since I added a tracker to track all reviews
blocking RDO (only non-critical reviews are remaining)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243533

> Right now, the Fedora testing situation is slightly better than the Red Hat/CentOS one, thanks to Delorean being in slightly better shape, and thanks to Brian Moss's dogged determination in getting it working.

Ironically, nope, RDO is better supported on CentOS as we have
slightly more control on our workflow there. And I'm not aware of
Brian Moss efforts, so it's likely not to be fixed in RDO.


What bothers me is that some of these issues were never reported to
us, so please open tickets or at least shout an angry mail at me :)
Feel free to ping me in the future for RDO related topics, I'm
number80 on freenode, I hang around #rdo, #openstack-stable and
#openstack-rpm-packaging.

Regards,
H.