----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > > Today Puppet OpenStack CI is running unit and functional test jobs > against puppet 3 and puppet 4. > Unit jobs for puppet 4 are currently voting and pretty stable. > Functional jobs for puppet 4 are not voting but also stable. > > Even if Puppet4 has not been largely adopted by our community [1] yet, > I would like to encourage our users to upgrade the version of Puppet. > Fedora ships it by default [2] and for Ubuntu, it's also the default > since yakkety [3]. > > [1] > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iIQ6YmpdOVctS2-wCV6SGPP1NSj8nKD9nv_xtZH9loY/edit?usp=sharing > [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=3529 > [3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/yakkety/puppet > > So here's my proposal, feel free to bring any feedback: > - For stable/mitaka CI and stable/liberty nothing will change. > - For current master (future stable/newton in a few months), transform > non-voting puppet4 jobs into voting and add them to the gate. Also > keep puppet3 unit tests jobs, as voting. > - After Newton release (during Ocata cycle), change master CI to only > gate functional jobs on puppet4 (and remove puppet3 jobs for > puppet-openstack-integration); but keep puppet3 unit tests jobs, as > voting. > - During Ocata cycle, implement a periodic job that will nightly check > we can deploy with Puppet3. The periodic job is something our > community interested by Puppet 3 will have to monitor and report any > new failure so we can address it. > > That way, we tell our users: > - don't worry if you deploy Liberty, Mitaka, Newton, we will > officially support Puppet 3. > - if you plan to deploy Puppet 4, we'll officially support you > starting from Newton. > - if you plan to deploy Ocata with Puppet 3, we won't support you > anymore since our functional testing jobs will be gone. Though we'll > make our best to be backward compatible thanks to our unit and > periodic functional testing jobs. > > Regarding packaging: > - on Ubuntu, we'll continue rely on what provides Puppetlabs because > Xenial doesn't provide Puppet4. > - on CentOS7, we are working on getting Puppet 4 packaged in RDO and > our CI will certainly use it. > > Any feedback is welcome,
I like the idea. It gives distros enough time to prepare to Puppet 4, and we're supposed to write compatible manifests anyway. Javier > -- > Emilien Macchi > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
