Removing Barreleye, Firestone, Garrison

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Tue Feb 6 15:32:08 AEDT 2018


On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Stewart Smith
<stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au> writes:
>> I am working on ensuring the boards that we build for are working with
>> the dev-4.13 kernel branch. Currently Barreleye, Firestone and
>> Garrison systems fail as there has not been a device tree forward
>> ported.
>>
>> Is there an interest in maintaining these platforms?
>>
>> If not, I will remove them from CI on Friday to unblock the kernel work.
>>
>> This does not stop someone re-enabling them in the near future should
>> interest arise. However, I suggest we create a policy on removing
>> abandoned machines when there is no one actively maintaining them, and
>> we use this to delete machines once they reach the agreed criteria.
>
> From a primarily consumer of OpenBMC perspective, I think it's okay to
> remove them. Booting the host on Firestone/Garrison with OpenBMC has
> always been somewhat sketchy.

Thanks for the response Stewart.

I've removed these three machines from the CI.

Cheers,

Joel


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