On 07/26/2017 05:08 PM, John Griffith wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Sean McGinnis <sean.mcgin...@gmx.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:30:49PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote: >>> On 2017-07-26 12:56:55 +0200 (+0200), Niels de Vos wrote: >>> [...] >>>> My current guess is that adding a 3rd party CI [3] for Gluster is >>>> the only missing piece? >>> [...] >>> >>> I thought GlusterFS was free/libre software. If so, won't the Cinder >>> team allow upstream testing in OpenStack's CI system for free >>> backends/drivers? Maintaining a third-party CI system for that seems >>> like overkill, but I'm unfamiliar with Cinder's particular driver >>> testing policies. >>> -- >>> Jeremy Stanley >> >> You are correct Jeremy. It wasn't a CI issue that caused the removal. >> IIRC, Red Hat decided to focus on Ceph as the platform for Cinder >> storage. >> >> > Just confirming Sean's recollection, Eric Harney from Redhat was pretty > much the sole maintainer of the Gluster code in Cinder and the decision was > made that he would stop maintaining/supporting the Gluster driver in Cinder > (and I believe he actually put out some calls asking for any volunteers > that might want to pick it up). I'll certainly let Eric speak to any > details if he wishes so I don't misrepresent. > > The bottom line is there was only one person maintaining it, CI is > relatively easy with Gluster, there was even (IIRC) infra already in place > to deploy/test in the upstream gate. > > Yeah, this was pretty much it -- bringing back the driver just revolves around having a person assigned to own and maintain it.
From a technical point of view there are not a lot of steps involved here, we can restore the previous gate jobs and driver code and I expect things would still be in working order. I can help coordinate these things with the new owner. __________________________________________________________________________ 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