Re: dropping trusty

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On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:55 AM, David Galloway <dgallowa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 11/30/2017 12:21 PM, Sage Weil wrote:
>> We're talking about dropping trusty support for mimic due to the old
>> compiler (incomplete C++11), hassle of using an updated toolchain, general
>> desire to stop supporting old stuff, and lack of user objections to
>> dropping it in the next release.
>>
>> We would continue to build trusty packages for luminous and older
>> releases, just not mimic going forward.
>>
>> My question is whether we should drop all of the trusty installs on smithi
>> and focus testing on xenial and centos.  I haven't seen any trusty related
>> failures in half a year.  There were some kernel-related issues 6+ months
>> ago that are resolved, and there is a valgrind issue with xenial that is
>> making us do valgrind only on centos, but otherwise I don't recall any
>> other problems.  I think the likelihood of a trusty-specific regression on
>> luminous/jewel is low.  Note that we can still do install and smoke
>> testing on VMs to ensure the packages work; we just wouldn't stress test.
>>
>> Does this seem reasonable?  If so, we could reimage the trusty hosts
>> immediately, right?
>>
>> Am I missing anything?
>>
>
> Someone would need to prune through the qa dir and make sure nothing
> relies on trusty for tests.  We've gotten into a bind recently with the

David, thanks for point out the direction. i removed the references to trusty
and updated related bits in https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/19307.

> testing of FOG [1] where jobs are stuck in Waiting for a long time
> (tying up workers) because jobs are requesting Trusty.  We got close to
> having zero Trusty testnodes since the wip-fog branch has been reimaging
> baremetal testnodes on every job.
>
> But other than that, yes, I can reimage the Trusty testnodes.  Once FOG
> is merged into teuthology master, we won't have to worry about this
> anymore since jobs will automatically reimage machines based on what
> distro they require.

since https://github.com/ceph/teuthology/pull/1126 is merged, could you help
reimage the trusty test nodes?

>
> [1] https://github.com/ceph/teuthology/compare/wip-fog
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