[ovirt-devel] Re: Branching out 4.3 in ovirt-system-tests

> On 12 Oct 2020, at 14:49, Marcin Sobczyk <msobczyk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > > Hi all, > > after minimizing the usage of lago in basic suite, > and some minor adjustments in the network suite, we are finally > able to remove lago OST plugin as a dependency [1]. > > This however comes with a price of keeping lots of ugly ifology, i.e. [2][3]. > There's big disparity between OST runs we have on el7 and el8. > There's also tons of symlink-based code sharing between suites - be it 4.3 > suites and master suites or simply different types of suites. > The basic suite has its own 'test_utils', which is copied/symlinked > in multiple places. There's also 'ost_utils', which is really messy ATM. > It's very hard to keep track and maintain all of this... > > At this moment, we are able to run basic suite and network suite > on el8, with prebuilt ost-images and without lago plugin. > HE suites should be the next step. We have patches that make them > py3-compatible that probably still need some attention [4][5]. > We don't have any prebuilt HE ost-images, but this will be handled > in the nearest future. > > I think it's good time to detach ourselves from the legacy stuff > and start with a clean slate. My proposition would be to branch > out 4.3 in ovirt-system-tests and not use py2/el7 in the master > branch at all. This would allow us to focus on py3, el8 and ost-images > efforts while keeping the legacy stuff intact. > > WDYT? Great. We don’t really need 4.3 that much anymore. > Regards, Marcin > > [1] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/111643/ > [2] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/111643/6/basic-suite-master/control.sh > [3] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/111643/6/basic-suite-master/test-scenarios/c... > [4] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/108809 > [5] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/110097 >