On 11/19/2015 09:32 AM, Kevin Carter wrote:
> I don't believe we should have a class system in the OS's that we choose 
> to support. If we're going to bring in a new OS I think we should first 
> bring it in using non-voting jobs however once all of the bits have been 
> finalized the supported OS should be able to pass the same sets of tests 
> as everything else. Now, we may run into various applications that may 
> not be compatible or available on different distros, which is fine, but 
> in that case we should call out the deficiencies marking a specific job 
> as non-voting until we can see about resolving the issues. I would like 
> to avoid creating second class operating systems within OSA if at all 
> possible.
> 
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> Kevin Carter
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> On 11/19/2015 09:21 AM, Major Hayden wrote:
>> On 11/18/2015 04:19 AM, Jesse Pretorius wrote:
>>> The current community has done some research into appropriate patterns to 
>>> use and has a general idea of how to do it - but in order to actually 
>>> execute there need to be enough people who commit to actually maintaining 
>>> the work once it's done. We don't want to carry the extra code if we don't 
>>> also pick up extra contributors to maintain the code.
>>
>> Should there be a concept of primary and secondary operating systems 
>> supported by openstack-ansible?  I'm thinking something similar to the tiers 
>> of hypervisors in OpenStack where some are tested heavily with gating while 
>> others have a lighter amount of testing.
>>
>> We might be able to have something along the lines of:
>>
>>    * Primary OS: Used in gate checks, heavily tested
>>    * Secondary OS: Not used in gate checks, lightly tested
>>    * Tertiary OS: Support in WIP state, not tested
>>
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>> Major Hayden
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I would like this to be the option we go with.  I've wanted to add
another OS to OSA but need to fulfil other prerequisites (adding the OS
to disk-image-builder) but once I do I'll be working on adding support
for it, have some vacation coming up...

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