I think the substantial part was running (and maintaining) the CI. Given the fragility of devstack and tempest, and their dependencies, this is not, unfortunately, a fire-and-forget operation but rather something that requires a fair time investment. Certainly I don't know of any reason other than CI why support can't be fixed up and re-added.
On 26 July 2017 at 11:56, Niels de Vos <nde...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hello, > > In one of the last Cinder releases support for Gluster has been dropped. > The commit message [1] mentions that the support has been marked > deprecated during Newton. > > It seems that there are quite some users in the Gluster Community that > run OpenStack with Gluster storage. These users did not take action when > Newton came out, but voiced their disappointment with more recent > releases. > > As one of the Gluster Maintainers that is watching over the integration > of Gluster in other projects, I would like to know more about the tasks > that it takes to get Gluster support back into Cinder. With those > details, the Gluster Community can work with interested OpenStack users > to add required CI jobs, and possibly other things. > > At the moment, the only knowledge I have on why Gluster support was > removed from Cinder is in a messy email conversation [2]. Pointers to > further clarifications and requirements that Gluster did not meet are > welcome. > > My current guess is that adding a 3rd party CI [3] for Gluster is the > only missing piece? If that is the case, I expect that we could add one > or more Jenkins jobs to one of our Gluster Community CI's. We run tests > in our own Jenkins instance [4], but also use the CentOS CI [5] for some > heavier testing. > > Any guidance, suggestions and opinions are most welcome! > > Many thanks, > Niels > > > 1. > https://github.com/openstack/cinder/commit/16e93ccd4f3a6d62ed9d277f03b64bccc63ae060 > 2. http://lists.gluster.org/pipermail/integration/2017-May/000024.html > 3. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Cinder/tested-3rdParty-drivers > 4. https://build.gluster.org/ > 5. https://ci.centos.org/view/Gluster/ > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- Duncan Thomas __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev