On 02/10/2015 12:20 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2015-02-10 11:50:28 -0500 (-0500), David Kranz wrote:
[...]
I would rather give up branchless tempest than the ability for
real distributors/deployers/operators to collaborate on stable
branches.
[...]
Keep in mind that branchless tempest came about in part due to
downstream use cases as well, not merely as a means to simplify our
testing implementation. Specifically, the interoperability (defcore,
refstack) push was for a testing framework and testset which could
work against multiple deployed environments regardless of what
release(s) they're running and without having to decide among
multiple versions of a tool to do so (especially since they might be
mixing components from multiple OpenStack integrated releases at any
given point in time).
Yes, but that goes out the window in the real world because tempest is
not really branchless when we periodically
throw out older releases, as we must. And the earlier we toss out
things like icehouse, the less branchless it is from the
interoperability perspective.
Also, tempest is really based on api versions of services, not
integrated releases, so I'm not sure where mixing components comes into
play.
In any event, this is a tradeoff and since refstack or whomever has to
deal with releases that are no longer supported upstream anyway,
they could just do whatever the solution is from the get-go. That said,
I feel like the current situation is caused by a perfect storm of
branchless tempest, unpinned versions, and running multiple releases on
the same machine so there could be other ways to untangle things. I just
think it is a bad idea to throw the concept of stable branches overboard
just because the folks who care about it can't deal with the current
complexity. Once we simplify it, some way or another, I am sure more
folks will step up or those who have already can get more done.
-David
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