On 03/09/2017 07:19 PM, Jay Faulkner wrote:
Hi all,
The ipminative driver Is currently an anomaly in ironic’s tree, despite the
driver being initially deprecated in Newton[1], and our desire to drop them
reiterated on the mailing list in December[2], it was has not been removed from
the tree prior to the Ocata release.
At the PTG the ironic team had a short discussion about the ipminative (aka
pyghmi) driver — the conclusion was that unless third party CI was run against
the driver, we would be forced to follow through on the deprecation and remove
it. Testing in upstream CI, against VirtualBMC, was mostly rejected due to both
the ipminative driver and virtualbmc using the same python ipmi library
(pyghmi), and therefore not being a valid test case. Additionally, further
adding urgency to the removal, several active ironic contributors who have
tested ipminative drivers in real-world environments have reported them as
unstable.
The promise of a native python driver to talk to ipmi in ironic is great, but
without proper testing and stability, keeping it in-tree does more harm to
ironic users than good — in fact, there’s very little indication to a deployer
using ironic that the driver may not work stably.
Therefore, I’m giving the mailing list a two week warning — unless volunteers
come willing to run third party CI against the ipminative drivers in the next
two weeks, I will be submitting a patch to remove them entirely from the tree.
The driver could then be moved into ironic-staging-drivers by any interested
contributors.
Thanks for writing it Jay. Indeed, we spent too much time waiting for someone to
overtake this driver. I'm very much in favor of removing it, if somebody does
not step up *right now*.
-
Jay Faulkner
OSIC
Related-bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ironic/+bug/1671532
[1] https://docs.openstack.org/releasenotes/ironic/newton.html
[2] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-December/108666.html
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