On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 1:52 PM, Pavlo Shchelokovskyy < pshchelokovs...@mirantis.com> wrote:
> HI all, > > we (ironic community) some time ago decided [0] to require third-party CI > for any driver that is present in the main ironic code tree. I'd like to > discuss the state of currently unsupported drivers and how to proceed with > them. > > Here is the current rundown, please correct me if I've got something wrong: > > * AMT - already in ironic-staging-drivers repo, patch removing those from > ironic is on review [1] > Agree - as a note, those were deprecated September 16, so we need to wait for December 16 to land that. I've -2'd the patch, but reviews welcome so we can land that on the 16th. > * iBoot - already in ironic-staging-drivers repo, patch removing those > from ironic is on review [1] > Ditto. > * WakeOnLan - already in ironic-staging-drivers repo, patch removing those > from ironic is on review [1] > Ditto. > * IPMINative/Pyghmi - community driver, AFAIU community still considers > those as a viable alternative for the future and is constantly > re-evaluating maturity of pyghmi IPMI implementation, so these are to stay > for now > Well, we deprecated these, unless someone gets CI running for it, I plan to drop them. > * SSH - community driver, still used on several ironic gate jobs and in > jobs of other projects under Baremetal program (like bifrost). Besides > AFAIK quite a number of people use it for development. So it is to stay in > the tree for some more time too, at least until all upstream gate jobs are > moved to ipmitool-based drivers. > Like Dmitry said, we should move these jobs over ASAP and then drop this driver. > * SNMP - people are working to enable testing it in CI, patches are > landing, stays in tree > Agree. > * VirtualBox - community driver, for testing only, VirtualBox can be used > via SSH driver and I am not aware of any plans for (third-party) CI for it > (although it would in principle be possible even in upstream). Is anyone > actually using this driver? > Someone that no longer works on Ironic submitted this. It's for using VirtualBox on a Windows host where we don't have SSH (it uses VBox's web API). This is also deprecated and I plan to remove it. > * MSFTOCS - vendor driver, I am not aware of any plans for third-party CI > Agree, I plan to drop this. > * SeaMicro - vendor driver, I am not aware of any plans for third-party CI > Agree, I plan to drop this. > Based on that I propose to remove VirtualBox, MSFTOCS and SeaMicro drivers > from ironic right away. If anybody is interested in supporting them they > would have to extract those drivers (together with unit tests and docs) to > separate repos or propose them to ironic-staging-drivers minding the > warning [2]. > > [0] https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-specs/ > specs/not-implemented/third-party-ci.html > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/397847 > [2] http://ironic-staging-drivers.readthedocs.io/en/ > latest/README.html#what-the-ironic-staging-drivers-is-not > Thanks for sending this, Pavlo. :) // jim
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