[rdo-dev] RDO community involvement in OpenStack's rpm-packaging project

[Javier Pena]

Hi all,

As you're probably aware, there is an OpenStack rpm-packaging project [1], where the RDO community has been collaborating with people from other rpm-based distributions. We have been successful in reusing some tools created by that project [2][3], but we've never been able to reuse the spec file templates generated by the project, besides openstack-macros and some python 3 tests done during the Rocky cycle.

As a community, we need to decide what we want our involvement in the project to be:

- Only get involved in the tooling side, if we have no plans to reuse the spec templates in the future.
- Try a deeper integration with the specs.
- Other alternatives?

Each option will carry its own consequences, e.g. if we stop contributing to the spec templates we should stop the 3rd party CI jobs and VMs that support them.

Please contribute to the discussion on this thread. We will vote for a final decision during the next RDO Community meeting on September 5th.

Thanks,
Javier

[1] - https://github.com/openstack/rpm-packaging
[2] - https://github.com/openstack/pymod2pkg
[3] - https://github.com/openstack/renderspec