[rdo-dev] Retiring of openstack namespace projects in review.rdoproject.org

[Paul Belanger]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 07:57:11PM -0400, Paul Belanger wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to raise another topic related to the recent migration of zuulv3.
> Today the rdoproject has a lot of projects in gerrit of upstream openstack, for
> example:
> 
>   # Mirror of upstream aodh (mirror + patches)
>   git clone https://review.rdoproject.org/r/openstack/aodh
> 
> these are projects in the openstack namespace that are not distgit packaging.
> With the migration to zuulv3, this actually creates a little bit of an issue due
> to how zuul now load configuration.  If you look at the project stanza in config
> project you'll see something like:
> 
>   - project:
>       name: git.openstack.org/openstack/aodh
> 
>   - project:
>       name: review.rdoproject.org/openstack/aodh
> 
> This is the tell zuul, which connection to gerrit should be used.  However, in
> most cases these projects are just running a simple tox job to ensure tests
> work.
> 
> However, from what I see these projects aren't really used anymore? Is that
> correct?  If so, can we start the process to retire these repos and remove them
> from zuul configuration? This will help simplify the amount of things zuul needs
> to know about.
> 
> If we do need them, moving forward, I don't actually think we need to mirror the
> full project any more, this is due to zuul jobs can now be written to first
> require-project of the upstream project, clone it to a node, then we just need
> to overlay downstream patches.  However, I think this workflow needs a little
> more work to make it work properly.
> 
Talking with apevec about this last week, I think it was agreed a while back,
this workflow is no longer actually needed. So if that is the case, we are
actually safe to retire these projects and remove them from zuul.

I'll propose a lot of patches to do this and clean up zuul.

- Paul