[service-announce] Switching default nodeset in base job to ubuntu-focal

[Sorin Sbarnea]

I support the move as I am aware of several issues that are sorted (or
simplified) by using a newer release.

It worth mentioning that GHA has a nice way to announce pending upgrade of
their “nodeset” upgrades: they include a visible warning on each executed
job that use a node that is pending a change, something like: “This job is
using ubuntu-latest which will soon be switched from x to y. Use specific
labels if you want to avoid such a switch.” They do no mention the exact
date of the switch but apparently these warnings to stay on for at least
one month.

On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 22:49, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> The OpenDev Collaboratory is normally somewhat conservative about
> when it changes its Zuul node "default" (that is, the nodeset in its
> base job). It's been ubuntu-bionic since at least July of 2019 when
> we first moved our base job into its own repository, and
> ubuntu-focal nodes have been available in our deployment since
> before Ubuntu's 20.04 LTS was officially released more than a year
> ago. All that is to say, updating our default is overdue.
>
> On Tuesday, 2021-05-18 (two weeks from today) we'll approve
> https://review.opendev.org/789098 to update the nodeset to
> ubuntu-focal for any jobs which don't specify their own or inherit
> from another job which does. We've already merged a change which
> updates our base-test job to reflect this, so you can test either by
> explicitly setting your jobs to use an ubuntu-focal nodeset or to
> inherit from base-test (though we don't recommend merging changes
> for the latter, just rely on speculative execution to identify
> problems which you may encounter when the default changes).
>
> Please reply to the service-discuss mailing list with any questions
> or concerns. You should also feel free to leave comments on the
> change linked above.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
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