689573 - remove releng_* fields from inventory

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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Description

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

As I understand it, these fields were added to match what is currently in slavealloc.  They're not currently being used -- unless someone from releng chimes in to say they've started using them since I left -- and when they are used, they will be better handled as k/v pairs.

What do you think about removing them?

Comment 1

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

the only hosts that appear to be using any of those fields are: dev-master01.build.scl1, linux-hgwriter-slave01, linux-hgwriter-slave02

I'll wait for the green light to nuke them.

Comment 2

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Bear, can you as around releng quickly, and see if anyone's using these fields?  I'm the one put the values in for those hosts, so I'm 99.9% sure we can nuke them - I just want 0.1% :)

Comment 3

[Mike Taylor [:bear]]

(In reply to Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] from comment #2)
> Bear, can you as around releng quickly, and see if anyone's using these
> fields?  I'm the one put the values in for those hosts, so I'm 99.9% sure we
> can nuke them - I just want 0.1% :)

I've emailed the team asking if anyone is concerned with this change

Comment 4

[Mike Taylor [:bear]]

(In reply to Mike Taylor [:bear] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] from comment #2)
> > Bear, can you as around releng quickly, and see if anyone's using these
> > fields?  I'm the one put the values in for those hosts, so I'm 99.9% sure we
> > can nuke them - I just want 0.1% :)
> 
> I've emailed the team asking if anyone is concerned with this change

The consensus was "we had custom fields???" ;)

no reason to stop you removing the fields from our side

Comment 5

[Rob Tucker [:rtucker]]

This is complete. Please let me know if you see any issues.