On Thu, May 4, 2023, at 5:52 AM, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
On Wed, May 03, 2023 at 03:28:00PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
tl;dr is that the OpenDev Collaboratory is looking at potentially scaling back on Fedora-based test platform support. Several options are presented in this service-discuss post:
https://lists.opendev.org/archives/list/service-discuss@lists.opendev.org/th...
If you have an opinion on using Fedora in our CI jobs, please follow up to the discussion there.
Hi, Jeremy.
FWIW, I think it is still valuable to have at least the latest Fedora-only image available. Often times kernel and virtualization fixes are first fixed on Fedora -- many upstream kernel developers happen to use Fedora.
Once upon a time we had OpenSUSE Tumbleweed images too. These distros are in theory great for catching problems early, but in practice it seems very few people (if any) have the time and ability to address every problem that comes up in them.
Another reason I wanted to mention is the 'virt-preview' repo[1]. But I see that 'virt-preview' is also available for CentOS stream. So that's a less strong reason.
Right, it seems like CentOS Stream is filling a very similar role these days and importantly with a much longer runway of support. This means there is less work required to keep CentOS Stream images up compared to Fedora images.
That said, if dropping Fedora is the compromise we need to make to reduce the workload of "mirroring and image management, then I don't insist.
Currently there isn't anyone volunteering/able to add Fedora 38 images (which is latest). I think if someone wanted to do that we could proceed, but likely without locally hosted package mirrors. That would reduce a lot of the overhead and limit the work required to spinning up images with diskimage-builder. Based on other feedback [2], I suspect that we just don't have any interested users (and consequently no interested volunteers)? That said we'll wait a bit for more feedback and discussion before making a concrete decision.
[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/virtmaint-sig/virt-preview/
[2] https://lists.opendev.org/archives/list/service-discuss@lists.opendev.org/th...
-- /kashyap