[rdo-dev] [CI] tripleo support for Fedora

[Haïkel Guémar]

On 12/01/2018 23:27, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 1:32 PM, Phill. Whiteside <phillwuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> from chatting to a guy who does work with fedora and supports bugs etc. His
>> advice is that because of the fast cycle of fedora releases, they are not
>> suitable for production machines. As such, I'd concur with sticking with
>> RHEL / CentOS.
>>
> 
> By that logic, you'd avoid OpenStack too, since they follow almost
> exactly the same schedule and cadence. In general, I've been rather disappointed
> about the lack of effort in testing OpenStack on top of Fedora, as
> Fedora is the *upstream* of RHEL/CentOS, and there's no good reason
> for not doing it.
> 

Being short handed is a good reason, there's a SIG to help fill that gap 
partially though.

> I would not be surprised if RDO OpenStack is not going to be ready for
> Python 3 because there's no work going on to at least build against
> Fedora. And that has nasty trickle-down effects...
> 

Well, actually we do have a trunk builder on Fedora and we regularly fix 
build issues. Most libs and clients are already python3 compliant.

Regards,
H.