Puppet PR Traige Notes 2014-08-20

[Joshua Partlow]

Attending: JoshP, Michael, Ethan, Felix

Short triage this week while working on 3.7 release.

New:

Facter

763: (CPR-5) Move dmidecode from dependency to recommends

  - Just needs to reference FACT-467\

  - Michael updated commit message and merged

751: (FACT-651) added KVM detection for SunOS

  - Will is working with the contributor; waiting on merge until after Facter release

Puppet:

2997: (PUP-3094) - Adding separate binaries for SELinux

  - JoshP commenting that this seems like more of a packaging issue; pinged Haus.

2986: Added yaml output to puppet resource #2986

  - Pinged Henrik and Eric to get their opinions; Eric is discussing it with contributor in the PR.

  - If we move forward, would need a ticket and specs.

2978: (PUP-3066) Services are started before flags are set #2978

  - Asked for a spec

Held Over

Facter:

748: Fact-639 Allow any kind of hypervisor for ec2 facts

  - Kylo and Adrien are talking with the contributor

  - Some concerns that the specs are incomplete (not checking enough cases) Felix commenting

  - Still under discussion

731: Display facts for aliases in *BSD

  - It looks like the code was written by a different contributor from the GitHub submitter, we need to work out the status of CLAs for the pull request

  - Code could use some refactoring, cleanup, and tests, but we can work with the contributor on that

  - Needs a JIRA issue

  - Still needs work; pending contributor response; check in next week. (2x)

  - Check in with Adrien about status and whether this should be kept open

  - Hasn't seen an update in 4 weeks and still needs a fair amount of refactoring and spec work; closing.

Puppet:

2866 PUP-1244 puppet4

  - Switches the yum provider to use RPM version comparison instead of semantic version comparison

  - This might be breaking but is more correct and has been requested since Puppet 0.24, document as a breaking change in Puppet 4

  - Commit messages need to be fixed up, Andy to handle

  - Has an error; @jantman will be looking into it this week; check back next week.

  - Still waiting on contributor for changes; Joshua to ping

  - Jason has updated the failing case JoshP saw; Joshua to test again

  - Tests out fine, and has been squashed, but seeing a failure on 1.8.7; JoshP will look at it

2961: PUP-2790 Use telnet to detect upstart version

  - Some questions for the contributor about how the change fixes PUP-2790 from Felix

  - Also needs commit fix up and spec and CLA

2952: PUP-3038 Cache search_directories

  - Ongoing discussion about unexpected impact from this change

  - Breaking specs

  - Commit message neds updating to provide ticket # and information about the change

  - Felix also wondered how this related to PUP-1592 and has updated PUP-3038 to link that

2951: PUP-3038 Cache typeloader misses

  - Same ticket as 2952, similar concerns

2933: (PUP-1527) After upgrade from 3.3.2-1 to 3.4.2-1 naginator fails to crea...

  - Commits need squashing

  - Contributor is having issues signing the CLA, will sort that out.

  - Waiting to hear back from Jeff about the CLA issue.

2919: Proposal for processing an external trusted OID yaml file

  - JIRA issue has been filed for this pull request

  - Needs spec tests, needs refining of the implementation. We'll continue work on this with the contributor.

  - Check in with Adrien tomorrow 8/14 about picking this up now that he's rotated off of community role

2915: Set accept-encoding to identity when http_compression is false

  - Looks fine; waiting for one spec name fix from Contributor, and pinged Josh Cooper for any comments, as he was last to mention this code change in the ticket.

  - Josh commented on this indicating that the puppet module tool will need a similar fix; we don't have enough information on this to proceed, waiting for feedback from Andy.

  - Need to look into how to handle this for puppet module tool as well

2879: Clarify possible exit codes and behavior with negative exit codes on Windows

  - Pinging Josh Cooper for additional feedback on doc changes.

  - Rob to review the doc changes and merge if they look good

2649: Add slot support for portage package provider.

  - Duplicates GH-2779, decision is to ping both contributors to see if they can coalesce their individual PRs into a single branch. Finch commenting this week.

  - GH-2779 hasn't seen updates, closing that one in favor of this one. There's some concern about possibly using `:` as a special value in package resource titles but we don't want to go down that route.

  - Pinged Adrien for a final call on this now that the specs are updated

2683: Add more config manipulation options

  - Needs a JIRA issue and tests are failing

  - Would be a good fix to have, if contributor doesn't get back to us might be worthwhile to fixup ourselves.

  - Adrien asking for a Ticket so we can pull it onto community board and tackle it.

  - No response/no ticket, Joshua to create ticket

  - Discussion that we should preserve the current behavior of `puppet config set prop ''` and you should use `puppet config del` to remove the setting and restore the default. JoshP to continue work.

2770: Allow version and held states of a package to specified as separate properties

  - This is a very big and sticky issue, and might be worth promoting into the platform team because of the wide ranging ramifications

  - Plan is to discuss how we promote issues like this, and respond to the contributor with our next steps forward

  - Pending contributor response, willing to wait on this since we're asking a lot of the contributor

  - Will need to talk with Adrien tomorrow and figure out how to hand this off.

2870 (PUP-19708) Make the puppet agent retry failed requests.

  - Issue in commit message references projects.puppetlabs.com ticket, actual issue is https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-2526

  - There are a lot of cases where HTTP retries aren't meaningful (catalog retrieval, report submission)

  - We haven't been able to come to an agreement with the contributor about what requests should be retried and how, and we might not have the resources to make the changes ourselves.

  - Felix commented in the ticket, some discussion is happening there

  - Waiting to see if we can come to some agreement in the ticket as to the direction of the change.

2869 Allow Upstart jobs on Amazon Linux

  - Ticket filed, issues pending on the pull request

  - Waiting on contributor feedback

  - Needs a spec and an updated commit message

2820: (PUP-2867) Support ~ in file paths, allows to deploy to ~<user> directories

  - Already in discussion on puppet-dev

  - Tests are failing, commits need squashing; waiting for contributor response

  - What happens when the path starts with `~/` - do we expand to the current user?

  - Felix clarified the above issue; waiting on contributor

2614: (PUP-2452) Refresh support for Package type

  - Looks reasonable.

  - There is a question from the contributor about if there needs to be something changed to use this.

  - The answer to the question is, "yes, having a use of this is ideal".

  - Adrien noted that using the :methods system for the feature is hard to control. Better is to require that the provider just explicitly declare the feature, which it already does.

  - Another concern came up about getting refresh events that will cause unintended reinstalls. Such a case is when a class contains a package and is the target of a notify.

  - This is a larger change to functionality that we need to bring up on puppet-dev to figure out how to deal with the unintended consequences of adding this functionality.

  - Adrien to file a ticket on finer grained refresh handling and start a thread on puppet-dev to come to a decision about how to better control refresh events.

  - Some discussion taking place in the PR, waiting on the contributor for an updated opt-in approach

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Josh Partlow

jpar...@puppetlabs.com

Developer, Puppet Labs

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