Posted https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/112302/ to remove all 4.3 suites.
Please review.

On 10/12/20 6:28 PM, Michal Skrivanek wrote:
>> On 12 Oct 2020, at 14:49, Marcin Sobczyk <msobczyk@redhat.com> 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/conftest.py
>> [4] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/108809
>> [5] https://gerrit.ovirt.org/110097
>>