Re: [openstack-dev] OpenStack Programs

2013-06-25 Thread James E. Blair
I like the programs idea and the direction this thread is going. As we reconsider the relationship of repos and programs to the OpenStack project, I think we should include one more aspect of taxonomy. We have several orgs on github related to openstack: openstack/ openstack-infra/ opensta

Re: [openstack-dev] OpenStack Programs

2013-06-25 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > James E. Blair wrote: >> I propose that in the future, we adopt the following strategy: >> >> * Any repo associated with an official OpenStack program is entitled to >>use the openstack org. >> * Programs may request an org for

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime for neutron repo rename

2013-06-30 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, On Saturday July 6th at 1600 UTC, Gerrit will be offline for a short time while we rename the source code repositories of quantum and python-quantumclient to neutron and python-neutronclient. To convert that time to your local timezone, see: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.

[openstack-dev] Upcoming Zuul changes Friday, July 19th

2013-07-16 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, There are some changes to Zuul's behavior that will be arriving beginning this Friday, July 19th. Here's what you need to know: * Zuul will be more aggressive at dequeuing changes in the gate pipeline when there are merge conflicts. * Zuul will prioritize jobs for the gate pipeline ahead

[openstack-dev] [Infra] Nominations for Jenkins Job Builder Core

2013-07-29 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, Jenkins Job Builder project (part of the Infrastructure program) has proven to be quite popular! There are a number of folks who contribute valuable reviews to the project, and among those, four in particular have stood out recently. Therefore, I'd like to spin off a new core team to manage

[openstack-dev] [Infra] New "Bug" tags in commit messages

2013-08-02 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, Anthony Dodd has recently implemented some cool new features that we discussed at the summit -- driving more automation from commit messages. Here's what you need to know to use the new features: Use header style references when referencing a bug in your commit log. The following styles are n

Re: [openstack-dev] Enabling neutron gating

2013-08-05 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > On 08/04/2013 12:09 PM, Thierry Carrez wrote: >> Nachi Ueno wrote: >>> It looks like neutron gating error improves as much as non-neutron gating >>> one, >>> so I would like to suggest to enable neturon-gating again. >> >> +1 > > If those numbers are still valid as of today,

Re: [openstack-dev] Motion to start using Gerrit for TC votes

2013-08-06 Thread James E. Blair
Monty Taylor writes: > Hi! > > Currently, we make motions by email, then we discuss them by mailing > list, then we discuss them more in IRC, then we vote on them - at which > point the actual thing voted on may or may not get recorded somewhere > easy to find. > > What if instead we had a repo w

Re: [openstack-dev] Motion to start using Gerrit for TC votes

2013-08-07 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > Monty Taylor wrote: >> What if instead we had a repo with a bunch of ReStructureText in it - >> perhaps a copy of the TC charter and then a dir for additional things >> the TC has decided. That repo would be autopublished to a non-wiki >> website ... and the core team for

Re: [openstack-dev] missing information about change-id in GerritWorkflow wiki?

2013-08-07 Thread James E. Blair
Roman Gorodeckij writes: > Hi, > > I just completely messed up in here. > > Was reading a manual about Gerrit workflow: > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Gerrit_Workflow#Committing_Changes > And then there's link to here about how to build commit messages: > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Git

Re: [openstack-dev] Motion to start using Gerrit for TC votes

2013-08-07 Thread James E. Blair
Jeremy Stanley writes: > On 2013-08-07 09:35:33 +0200 (+0200), Flavio Percoco wrote: > [...] >> Would it make sense to have a copy of the votes at the end of that RST >> file (or somewhere in that commit) ? This will replicate vote results >> to our repo instead of just keeping them in Gerrit - i

Re: [openstack-dev] [IMPORTANT] The Gate around Feature Freeze

2013-08-22 Thread James E. Blair
Monty Taylor writes: > The infra team has done a lot of work in prep for our favorite time of > year, and we've actually landed several upgrades to the gate without > which we'd be in particularly bad shape right now. (I'll let Jim write > about some of them later when he's not battling the curre

Re: [openstack-dev] [Infra] We've launched git.openstack.org

2013-08-23 Thread James E. Blair
Michael Still writes: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:20 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph > wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> Several months ago the OpenStack Infrastructure team filed a bug to >> "Create a git.openstack.org mirror system"[0] > > Does git.openstack.org replace git hub for developers cloning

Re: [openstack-dev] Tempest now Running in Parallel in the Gate

2013-08-26 Thread James E. Blair
Matthew Treinish writes: > This should improve the run times for tempest jobs to between 20-30min > on average which will definitely help with the upcoming milestone > rush. This is great! Thanks to you and the Tempest team for getting this _huge_ effort done! I'm really excited that we're abl

Re: [openstack-dev] [Neutron]All unittest passed but Jenkins failed

2013-09-11 Thread James E. Blair
ZhiQiang Fan writes: > currently, i don't know if it is coverage problem or something else. > > the direct cause is: > > sudo /usr/local/jenkins/slave_scripts/jenkins-sudo-grep.sh post > > Sep 9 06:57:23 precise1 sudo: jenkins : 3 incorrect password > attempts ; TTY=unknown ; > PWD=/home/jenkin

[openstack-dev] Announcing a new library: requestsexceptions

2015-11-04 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, I'm pleased to announce the availability of a new micro-library named requestsexceptions. Now the task of convincing the requests library not to fill up your filesystem with warnings about SSL requests has never been easier! Over in infra-land, we use the requests library a lot, whether it's

[openstack-dev] Report from Gerrit User Summit

2015-11-09 Thread James E. Blair
Khai Do and I attended the Gerrit User Summit this weekend. It was a very busy weekend indeed with quite a lot of activity in all areas related to Gerrit. The following is a brief summary of items which may be of interest to our community. --==-- David Pursehouse from Sony Mobile spoke about wh

Re: [openstack-dev] [Fuel][Infra] HA deployment tests on nodepool

2015-11-16 Thread James E. Blair
Aleksandra Fedorova writes: > Hi, everyone, > > > > in Fuel project we run two HA deployment tests for every commit in > openstack/fuel-library repository. Currently these tests are run by > Fuel CI - the standalone Third-Party CI system, which can vote on > openstack/fuel* projects. But we'd li

Re: [openstack-dev] Troubleshooting cross-project comms

2015-11-17 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > Has anyone considered using #openstack-dev, instead of a new meeting > room? #openstack-dev is mostly a ghost town at this point, and deciding > that instead it would be the dedicated cross project space, including > meetings support, might be interesting. I agree it might b

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] Report from Gerrit User Summit

2015-11-17 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > Given that it's on track for getting accepted upstream, it's probably > something we could cherry pick into our deploy, as it won't be a > divergence issue. Once it merges upstream, yes. -Jim __ OpenSt

[openstack-dev] There is no Jenkins, only Zuul

2016-06-16 Thread James E. Blair
Since its inception, the OpenStack project has used Jenkins to perform its testing and artifact building. When OpenStack was two git repos, we had one Jenkins master, a few slaves, and we configured all of our jobs manually in the web interface. It was easy for a new project like OpenStack to set

[openstack-dev] Upcoming changes now that Jenkins has retired

2016-06-16 Thread James E. Blair
Now that we have retired Jenkins, we have some upcoming changes: * Console logs are now available via TCP The status page now has "telnet" protocol links to running jobs. If you connect to the host and port specified in that link, you will be sent the console log for that job up to that po

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][infra][ci] bulk repeating a test job on a single review in parallel ?

2016-07-05 Thread James E. Blair
Kashyap Chamarthy writes: > If it reduces nondeterministic spam for the CI Infra, and makes us > achieve the task at hand, sure. [/me need to educate himself a > bit more on the Zuul pipeline infrastructure.] > > Worth filing this (and your 'idle pipeline' thought below) in the Zuul > tracker he

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Removal of in progress console log access

2016-04-18 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > Bummer. This gets used a to figure out the state of things given that > zuul links to the console even after the job is complete. Changing that > to the log server link would mitigate the blind spot. Yeah, we know it's important, which is why we're working on getting it back

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Removal of in progress console log access

2016-04-18 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > On 04/18/2016 11:22 AM, James E. Blair wrote: >> Sean Dague writes: >> >>> Bummer. This gets used a to figure out the state of things given that >>> zuul links to the console even after the job is complete. Changing that >>> to th

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Removal of in progress console log access

2016-04-19 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > Yes, that would let you see the results of an individual experimental > run that is complete before they all return and post to the change. Once > they are all done, they are listed on the change, so that's good enough. We'll need a Zuul restart for this, so it may take anot

[openstack-dev] Announcing Gertty 1.3.0

2015-12-17 Thread James E. Blair
Announcing Gertty 1.3.0 === Gertty is a console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system. Gertty is designed to support a workflow similar to reading network news or mail. It syncs information from Gerrit to local storage to support disconnected operation and easy man

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] Announcing Gertty 1.3.0

2015-12-18 Thread James E. Blair
Michał Dulko writes: > As this was sent to openstack-dev list, I'll ask a Gertty usage question > here. Was anyone able to use Gertty successfully behind a proxy? My > environment doesn't allow any traffic outside the proxy and I haven't > noticed a config option to set it up. Gertty uses the py

[openstack-dev] Announcing a simple new tool: git-restack

2016-02-02 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, I'm pleased to announce a new and very simple tool to help with managing large patch series with our Gerrit workflow. In our workflow we often find it necessary to create a series of dependent changes in order to make a larger change in manageable chunks, or because we have a series of relate

Re: [openstack-dev] Announcing a simple new tool: git-restack

2016-02-02 Thread James E. Blair
Paul Michali writes: > Sounds interesting... the link > https://docs.openstack.org/infra/git-restack/ referenced > as the home page in PyPI is a broken link. I'm clearly getting ahead of things. The correct link is: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/git-restack/ Thanks, Jim ___

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [Infra] Meeting Tuesday July 28th at 19:00 UTC

2015-07-27 Thread James E. Blair
"Elizabeth K. Joseph" writes: > Hi everyone, > > The OpenStack Infrastructure (Infra) team is having our next weekly > meeting on Tuesday July 28th, at 19:00 UTC in #openstack-meeting > > Meeting agenda available here: > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Meetings/InfraTeamMeeting (anyone is > welco

[openstack-dev] Stackforge namespace retirement

2015-08-11 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, The TC has recently been considering what the big tent means for Stackforge. In short, very little will be changing, except that we will now start putting projects previously destined for stackforge/ in the openstack/ git namespace. The big tent is a recognition that there are a lot of proje

[openstack-dev] Migrating existing projects in the stackforge namespace

2015-08-14 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, As mentioned previously[1], we are retiring the stackforge/ namespace for git repositories and creating new projects in openstack/. This is largely a cosmetic change and does not change the governance model for new projects. As part of this we want to move all of the projects that are curren

Re: [openstack-dev] Stackforge namespace retirement

2015-08-14 Thread James E. Blair
"Fox, Kevin M" writes: > What is the process for current stackforge projects to move into the > openstack namespace then? Is it a simple request now, or a more > complicated process? Great question. I have proposed a process for that in a new thread: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openst

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime on Friday 2015-09-11 at 23:00 UTC

2015-08-27 Thread James E. Blair
On Friday, September 11 at 23:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for about 30 minutes while we rename some projects. Existing reviews, project watches, etc, should all be carried over. Currently, we plan on renaming the following projects: stackforge/os-ansible-deployment -> openstack/openstack-

[openstack-dev] Stackforge migration on October 17; action required for stackforge projects

2015-08-27 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, In a previous message[1] I described a plan for moving projects in the stackforge/ git namespace into openstack/. We have scheduled this migration for Saturday October 17, 2015. If you are responsible for a stackforge project, please visit the following wiki page as soon as possible and add

[openstack-dev] [infra] PTL non-candidacy

2015-09-10 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, I've been the Infrastructure PTL for some time now and I've been fortunate to serve during a time when we have not only grown the OpenStack project to a scale that we only hoped we would attain, but also we have grown the Infrastructure project itself into truly uncharted territory. Serving a

Re: [openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime on Friday 2015-09-11 at 23:00 UTC

2015-09-11 Thread James E. Blair
cor...@inaugust.com (James E. Blair) writes: > On Friday, September 11 at 23:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for > about 30 minutes while we rename some projects. > > Existing reviews, project watches, etc, should all be carried > over. This has been completed without incident

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] proposed priorities for Mitaka

2015-09-14 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > Doug Hellmann wrote: >> [...] >> 1. Resolve the situation preventing the DefCore committee from >>including image upload capabilities in the tests used for trademark >>and interoperability validation. >> >> 2. Follow through on the original commitment of the proj

[openstack-dev] Do not modify (or read) ERROR_ON_CLONE in devstack gate jobs

2015-09-24 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, Recently we noted some projects modifying the ERROR_ON_CLONE environment variable in devstack gate jobs. It is never acceptable to do that. It is also not acceptable to read its value and alter a program's behavior. Devstack is used by developers and users to set up a simple OpenStack envir

Re: [openstack-dev] Resigning as StoryBoard-Core

2015-05-21 Thread James E. Blair
Michael Krotscheck writes: > I am resigning, effective immediately, as StoryBoard Core, and will no > longer contribute to the project. Thank you for your work on Storyboard and I look forward to working with you as you share your expertise with other parts of the OpenStack project. -Jim _

Re: [openstack-dev] [packaging] Adding packaging as an OpenStack project

2015-06-02 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, This came up at the TC meeting today, and I volunteered to provide an update from the discussion. In general, I think there is a lot of support for a packaging effort in OpenStack. The discussion here has been great; we need to answer a few questions, get some decisions written down, and mak

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][qa] Empty "Build succeeded" when filtering jobs

2015-06-03 Thread James E. Blair
Evgeny Antyshev writes: > Some CIs like to narrow their scope to a certain set of files. > For that, they specify file mask on per-job basis. So there appear > annoying comments with only "Build succeeded". > (an example complaint: > http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-June/06

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime on Friday 2015-06-12 at 22:00 UTC

2015-06-09 Thread James E. Blair
On Friday, June 12 at 22:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for about 30 minutes while we rename some projects. Existing reviews, project watches, etc, should all be carried over. Currently, we plan on renaming the following projects: stackforge/mistral -> openstack/mistral stackforge/iron

[openstack-dev] Announcing Gertty 1.2.0

2015-06-10 Thread James E. Blair
Announcing Gertty 1.2.0 === Gertty is a console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system. Gertty is designed to support a workflow similar to reading network news or mail. It syncs information from Gerrit to local storage to support disconnected operation and easy man

Re: [openstack-dev] [puppet][zaqar] Help needed creating Zaqar manifests for puppet.

2015-06-11 Thread James E. Blair
Emilien Macchi writes: > On my side, I can take care of 1/ make sure the repo is on Stackforge > (for start, then it will move under OpenStack namespace once done) 2/ > help in unit/functional testing (rspec, beaker). If the PuppetOpenStack project will be adopting this, then we can just go ahea

[openstack-dev] Nominating Joshua Hesketh for infra-root

2015-06-11 Thread James E. Blair
The Infrastructure program has a unique three-tier team structure: contributors (that's all of us!), core members (people with +2 ability on infra projects in Gerrit) and root members (people with administrative access). Read all about it here: http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/proj

Re: [openstack-dev] Starting the M Release Name Poll

2015-06-15 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, I'd like to apologize to all of the people who worked hard on researching and proposing names for the M release that did not appear in the poll. When we worked on the new method for choosing a name, we did so with the idea that the entire process should be public and that the community is equ

Re: [openstack-dev] [Ironic][Horizon][Tuskar-ui] Making a dashboard for Ironic

2015-06-19 Thread James E. Blair
Hi all, I'm glad that by asking the ironic-dashboard creators to propose their project to ironic initially (rather than stackforge) we have prompted this conversation. We now know that two independent groups of people have created standalone ironic dashboards, neither of which is currently part o

Re: [openstack-dev] [ironic] Midcycle summary part 1/6

2016-02-16 Thread James E. Blair
Jim Rollenhagen writes: > As a note, the asterisk setup that Infra provided was *fantastic*, and > the virtual-ness of this midcycle is going better than I ever expected. > Thanks again to the infra team for all that you do for us. <3 That's great to hear! I'm looking forward to hearing what wo

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Take back the naming process

2015-01-27 Thread James E. Blair
Monty Taylor writes: > I do not like how we are selecting names for our releases right now. > The current process is autocratic and opaque and not fun - which is the > exact opposite of what a community selected name should be. > > I propose: > > * As soon as development starts on release X, we o

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack Foundation] [tc] Take back the naming process

2015-01-27 Thread James E. Blair
Lauren Sell writes: > Hey Monty, > > I’d like to weigh in here, because I think there have been some > misunderstandings around Lemming-gate. I’m glad you raised your > concerns; it’s a good test of release naming for us all to discuss and > learn from. > > To provide a little context for those n

Re: [openstack-dev] [tc] Take back the naming process

2015-01-28 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > Monty Taylor wrote: >> You'll notice that I did say in my suggestion that ANYONE should be able >> to propose a name - I believe that would include non-dev people. Since >> the people in question are marketing people, I would imagine that if any >> of them feel strongly a

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime Friday Jan 30

2015-01-29 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, On Friday, January 30 at 19:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for about 30 minutes while we rename some projects. Existing reviews, project watches, etc, should all be carried over. Currently, we plan on renaming the following projects (this list is subject to change): openstack/oslo.ve

[openstack-dev] [infra] Nominating Elizabeth K. Joseph for infra-core and root

2015-01-30 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, The Infrastructure program has a unique three-tier team structure: contributors (that's all of us!), core members (people with +2 ability on infra projects in Gerrit) and root members (people with administrative access). Read all about it here: http://ci.openstack.org/project.html#team El

[openstack-dev] [infra] Announcing 61 new infra puppet modules

2015-01-30 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, As part of an effort to better support re-use of the Infrastructure program's software, tooling, and systems-administration work, we have moved all of our puppet modules out of the system-config repository. Now each of them may be found in its own git repo, such as openstack-infra/puppet-zuul

Re: [openstack-dev] Which repo should the API WG use?

2015-01-31 Thread James E. Blair
"Kevin L. Mitchell" writes: > On Fri, 2015-01-30 at 22:33 +, Everett Toews wrote: >> It was suggested that the API WG use the openstack-specs [1] and/or >> the api-wg [2] repo to publish its guidelines. We’ve already arrived >> at the consensus that we should only use 1 repo [3]. So the purpo

Re: [openstack-dev] [Product] [all][log] Openstack HTTP error codes

2015-01-31 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > On 01/31/2015 05:24 AM, Duncan Thomas wrote: >> What I would rather not see is leakage of information when something >> internal to the cloud goes wrong, that the tenant can do nothing >> against. We certainly shouldn't be leaking internal implementation >> details like vendo

Re: [openstack-dev] [nova][cinder][neutron][security] Rootwrap on root-intensive nodes

2015-02-04 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > You make a good point when you mention "traditional distro" here. I > would argue that containers are slightly changing the rules of the > don't-run-as-root game. > > Solution (2) aligns pretty well with container-powered OpenStack > deployments -- running compute nodes a

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable] juno is fubar in the gate

2015-02-10 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > I also disagree with the proposed solution. We announced a support > timeframe for Icehouse, our downstream users made plans around it, so we > should stick to it as much as we can. To be fair, if we did that, we did not communicate accurately the sentiment of the room a

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra] Nominating Elizabeth K. Joseph for infra-core and root

2015-02-10 Thread James E. Blair
cor...@inaugust.com (James E. Blair) writes: > Hi, > > The Infrastructure program has a unique three-tier team structure: > contributors (that's all of us!), core members (people with +2 ability > on infra projects in Gerrit) and root members (people with > administrative a

[openstack-dev] Cross-Repo Dependencies in Zuul

2015-02-10 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, We have added support for cross-repo dependencies (CRD) in Zuul. The important bits: * To use them, include "Depends-On: " in the footer of your commit message. Use the full Change-ID ('I' + 40 characters). * These are one-way dependencies only -- do not create a cycle. * This is what a

Re: [openstack-dev] Cross-Repo Dependencies in Zuul

2015-02-11 Thread James E. Blair
Amrith Kumar writes: > This is awesome news! > > If I understand correctly, your description of "multiple changes" > describes cases where a single change depends on multiple changes. My > question is related to one-to-one dependencies in the form A -> B -> > C. > > I'm assuming that this is supp

Re: [openstack-dev] Cross-Repo Dependencies in Zuul

2015-02-11 Thread James E. Blair
"Sullivan, Jon Paul" writes: >> A change may depend on more than one Gerrit change ID as well. So it is >> possible for a change in tempest to depend on a change in devstack and a >> change in nova. Simply add more "Depends-On:" lines to the footer. > > Have you considered a case where changes

Re: [openstack-dev] [congress] following up on releasing kilo milestone 2

2015-02-11 Thread James E. Blair
sean roberts writes: > At our last meeting I volunteered to figure out what we need to do for > milestone 2. Here is what I propose: > > Repo cleanup: > We tag today's release with 2015.1.0b2. This is copying tag the other > openstack projects are using. I believe below is the correct syntax. Let

Re: [openstack-dev] What should openstack-specs review approval rules be ?

2015-02-12 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: > So what is it we actually want for that repository ? In a world where > Gerrit can do anything, what would you like to have ? > > Personally, I want our technical community in general, and our PTLs/CPLs > in particular, to be able to record their opinion on the proposed >

Re: [openstack-dev] What should openstack-specs review approval rules be ?

2015-02-13 Thread James E. Blair
Thierry Carrez writes: >> Current Cross-Project Repo Rules >> ... >> * Only the TC chair may vote Workflow +1. > > My understanding is that currently, any TC member can Workflow+1 (which > lead to the accidental approval of the previous spec). I think that was in

Re: [openstack-dev] [glance] Cleanout of inactive change proposals from review

2015-02-13 Thread James E. Blair
"Kuvaja, Erno" writes: > Hi all, > > We have almost year old (from last update) reviews still in the queue > for glance. The discussion was initiated on yesterday's meeting for > adopting abandon policy for stale changes. Hi, Abandoning changes submitted by other people is not a good experience

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra] [cinder] CI via infra for the DRBD Cinder driver

2015-02-24 Thread James E. Blair
Anita Kuno writes: > I'd like to make sure that if Infra is saying that CI jobs on drivers > can gate that this is a substantial difference from what I have been > saying for a year, specifically that they can't and won't. For the purposes of this conversation, the distinction between drivers an

[openstack-dev] [infra] Infra cloud: infra running a cloud for nodepool

2015-02-24 Thread James E. Blair
A group of folks from HP is interested in starting an effort to run a cloud as part of the Infrastructure program with the purpose of providing resources to nodepool for OpenStack testing. HP is supplying two racks of machines, and we will operate each as an independent cloud. I think this is a re

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-26 Thread James E. Blair
Stefano Maffulli writes: > On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 15:58 -0600, Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: >> One thing that comes to mind is that there are a lot of reviews that >> appear to have been abandoned; I just cleared several from the >> novaclient review queue (or commented on them to see if they were sti

Re: [openstack-dev] [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics]

2015-02-27 Thread James E. Blair
Stefano Maffulli writes: > In any case, since Sean said that nova (and other projects) already > remove unmergeable changesets regularly, I think the data are already > "clean enough" to give us food for thoughts. I am asking you to please independently remove changes that you don't think should

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-03-02 Thread James E. Blair
John Griffith writes: > For what it's worth, at one point the Cinder project setup an auto-abandon > job that did purge items that had a negative mark either from a reviewer or > from Jenkins and had not been updated in over two weeks. This had > absolutely nothing to do with metrics or statisti

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-03-02 Thread James E. Blair
Duncan Thomas writes: > Why do you say auto-abandon is the wrong tool? I've no problem with the 1 > week warning if somebody wants to implement it - I can see the value. A > change-set that has been ignored for X weeks is pretty much the dictionary > definition of abandoned, and restoring it is o

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-03-02 Thread James E. Blair
Doug Wiegley writes: > A default query that edited out old, jenkins failing, and -2 stuff > would be helpful. A default or easy query that highlighted things > relevant to the current milestone's blueprints and bugs would be SUPER > useful to guiding folks towards the most useful reviews to be d

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-03-02 Thread James E. Blair
Stefano branched this thread from an older one to talk about auto-abandon. In the previous thread, I believe I explained my concerns, but since the topic split, perhaps it would be good to summarize why this is an issue. 1) A core reviewer forcefully abandoning a change contributed by someone els

Re: [openstack-dev] Gerrit tooling improvements(was Re: auto-abandon changesets considered harmful)

2015-03-03 Thread James E. Blair
Sean Dague writes: > Right, I think this is the 'procedural -2' case, which feels like we > need another state for things that are being held for procedural > reasons, which is unrelated to normal code-review. We have been looking into that and believe we may be able to do something like that in

Re: [openstack-dev] auto-abandon changesets considered harmful (was Re: [stable][all] Revisiting the 6 month release cycle [metrics])

2015-03-03 Thread James E. Blair
John Griffith writes: > ​Should we just rename this thread to "Sensitivity training for > contributors"? I do not think that only new contributors might feel it is negative. I think that both some new and long-time contributors do. My oldest patch is from July -- it's still relevant, just not

Re: [openstack-dev] [all] OpenStack options for visually impaired contributors

2015-03-05 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, Also, in either Gerrit's web UI or Gertty, there is an option for displaying unified diffs, rather than side-by-side (it's a link on the change page in Gerrit, and a config file option in Gertty). I do not know if that would be helpful, but would be happy to learn. Thanks, Jim

[openstack-dev] Announcing Gertty 1.1.0

2015-03-06 Thread James E. Blair
Announcing Gertty 1.1.0 === Gertty is a console-based interface to the Gerrit Code Review system. Gertty is designed to support a workflow similar to reading network news or mail. It syncs information from Gerrit to local storage to support disconnected operation and easy man

Re: [openstack-dev] Avoiding regression in project governance

2015-03-10 Thread James E. Blair
Russell Bryant writes: > Part of the change is to recognize more projects as being part of the > OpenStack community. Another critical part was replacing the integrated > release with a set of tags. A project would be given a tag if it meets > some defined set of criteria. ... > I can't think o

Re: [openstack-dev] Avoiding regression in project governance

2015-03-10 Thread James E. Blair
Joe Gordon writes: > After watching the TC meeting, and double checking with the meeting notes > [0], it looks like the magnum vote was deferred to next week. But what > concerns me is the lack of action items assigned that will help make sure > next weeks discussion isn't just a repeat of what h

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime on 2015-03-21

2015-03-17 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, Gerrit will be unavailable for a few hours starting at 1500 UTC on Saturday, March 21. Also, as Jeremy indicated in this email, its IP address will be changing: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2015-February/002425.html If you use Gerrit from a network with egress filt

Re: [openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime on 2015-03-21

2015-03-21 Thread James E. Blair
cor...@inaugust.com (James E. Blair) writes: > Hi, > > Gerrit will be unavailable for a few hours starting at 1500 UTC on > Saturday, March 21. Gerrit is up and running on the new server. Actual downtime was about 1 hour from 1500 to 1600. Please let us know either here or on

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra] What do people think of YAPF (like gofmt, for python)?

2015-03-26 Thread James E. Blair
Chmouel Boudjnah writes: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Monty Taylor wrote: > >> git review is used by a ton of people who write in non-python. I think >> adding openstack-specific style enforcement to it would make it way less >> generally useful. >> > > > I think if we wanted to do that w

[openstack-dev] [Infra] PTL Candidacy

2015-04-02 Thread James E. Blair
I would like to announce my candidacy for the Infrastructure PTL. I have developed and operated the project infrastructure for several years and have been honored to serve as the PTL for the Kilo cycle. I was instrumental not only in creating the project gating system and development process, but

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime on Friday 2015-04-17 at 22:00 UTC

2015-04-14 Thread James E. Blair
On Friday, April 17 at 22:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for about 2 hours while we rename some projects and perform some database maintenance. Existing reviews, project watches, etc, should all be carried over. Currently, we plan on renaming the following projects: stackforge/murano

[openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime and upgrade on Saturday 2015-05-09 at 1600 UTC

2015-04-14 Thread James E. Blair
On Saturday, May 9 at 16:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for about 4 hours while we upgrade to the latest release of Gerrit: version 2.10. We are currently running Gerrit 2.8 so this is an upgrade across two major releases of Gerrit. The release notes for both versions are here: https://ger

[openstack-dev] TC Candidacy

2015-04-22 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, I'd like to announce my candidacy for re-election to the TC. About Me I am the PTL for the OpenStack Infrastructure Program, which I have been helping to build for nearly four years. I have also served on the TC since the Icehouse cycle. I am responsible for a significant portion

Re: [openstack-dev] Gerrit downtime and upgrade on Saturday 2015-05-09 at 1600 UTC

2015-05-09 Thread James E. Blair
cor...@inaugust.com (James E. Blair) writes: > On Saturday, May 9 at 16:00 UTC Gerrit will be unavailable for about 4 > hours while we upgrade to the latest release of Gerrit: version 2.10. > > We are currently running Gerrit 2.8 so this is an upgrade across two > major releases

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] Gerrit downtime and upgrade on Saturday 2015-05-09 at 1600 UTC

2015-05-11 Thread James E. Blair
Jeremy Stanley writes: > On 2015-05-11 11:02:17 -0500 (-0500), Kevin L. Mitchell wrote: >> As a point of information, I logged in to review a python-novaclient >> review, and now I find I can't load any nova reviews at all; I get a >> page with the top bar, but below that is a "Toggle CI" button

Re: [openstack-dev] [neutron][infra][release] neutron-lbaas CI job issues

2015-05-12 Thread James E. Blair
Robert Collins writes: > tl;dr: > - NEVER clone from git.openstack.org during CI. Use the local cache. > - ALWAYS use the ZUUL_REF > (http://ci.openstack.org/zuul/launchers.html#common-parameters) when > using git sources, so that you test what zuul expects to be tested. Better yet, always use

Re: [openstack-dev] Zuul v3 - What's Coming: What to expect with the Zuul v3 Rollout

2017-03-03 Thread James E. Blair
"bogda...@mail.ru" writes: > That's great news! In-repo configs will speed up development for teams, > with a security caveat for infrastructure team to keep in mind. The > ansible runner CI node which runs playbooks for defined jobs, should not > content sensitive information, like keys and secr

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra] where the mail-man lives?

2017-03-03 Thread James E. Blair
"bogda...@mail.ru" writes: > The mail-man for the openstack-dev mail list is missing at least 'kolla' > and 'development' checkboxes. It would be nice to make its filter case > unsensitive as well, so it would match both 'All' and 'all' tags. How > could we fix that? Any place to submit a PR? Un

Re: [openstack-dev] [Sahara][infra] Jenkins based 3rd party CIs

2017-03-06 Thread James E. Blair
Telles Nobrega writes: > Hello, > > we from Sahara use the compatibility layer with Zuulv2.5 and we are > wondering if with the change to Zuulv3 this compatibility layer will still > be maintained. > If the layer is removed it will reflect into some changes on our side and > we are looking for th

[openstack-dev] [infra][security] Encryption in Zuul v3

2017-03-21 Thread James E. Blair
Hi, In working on the implementation of the encrypted secrets feature of Zuul v3, I have found some things that warrant further discussion. It's important to be deliberate about this and I welcome any feedback. For reference, here is the relevant portion of the Zuul v3 spec: http://specs.openst

Re: [openstack-dev] [infra][security] Encryption in Zuul v3

2017-03-21 Thread James E. Blair
Clint Byrum writes: > Excerpts from Matthieu Huin's message of 2017-03-21 18:43:49 +0100: >> Hello James, >> >> Thanks for opening the discussion on this topic. I'd like to mention that a >> very common type of secrets that are used in Continuous Deployments >> scenarios are SSH keys. Correct me

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [infra][security] Encryption in Zuul v3

2017-03-21 Thread James E. Blair
David Moreau Simard writes: > I don't have a horse in this race or a strong opinion on the topic, in > fact I'm admittedly not very knowledgeable when it comes to low-level > encryption things. > > However, I did have a question, even if just to generate discussion. > Did we ever consider simply

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [infra][security] Encryption in Zuul v3

2017-03-22 Thread James E. Blair
Ian Cordasco writes: > On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 6:10 PM, James E. Blair wrote: >> We did talk about some other options, though unfortunately it doesn't >> look like a lot of that made it into the spec reviews. Among them, it's >> probably worth noting that th

Re: [openstack-dev] [OpenStack-Infra] [infra][security] Encryption in Zuul v3

2017-03-22 Thread James E. Blair
Darragh Bailey writes: > On 22 March 2017 at 15:02, James E. Blair wrote: > >> Ian Cordasco writes: >> >> > >> > I suppose Barbican doesn't meet those requirements either, then, yes? >> >> Right -- we don't want to require ano

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