Open Stack

Hey,

On Tue, 2013-07-09 at 11:01 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'd like to propose an official program to the TC - refstack, a program
> for verifying interoperability between implementations via FITS testing.
> 
> Official Title: OpenStack Interoperability
> Initial PTL: Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com>
> Mission Statement:
>   Develop and maintain FITS testing and interoperability reporting for
>   OpenStack deployments and distributions.
> 
> For a little background, the specific incarnation of the idea for this
> came up at the last in-person Foundation Board meeting, and I think it's
> a good idea. Also, it turns out there’s a reference in the logo
> guidelines stating that any FITS defined by the TC and made available by
> OpenStack needs to be passed before the logos can be used for a product.
> 
> Follow on discussions were held at the summit, and a general approach of
> basing the testing of clouds on tempest was agreed to. The general idea
> is that for any given cloud, refstack will run tempest against the cloud
> in a standard configuration (not re-configuring tempest on a per-cloud
> basis) This will result in a set of passing and failing tests. That
> output then needs to be processed and presented in a way that it can be
> the basis of determining which elements are compliant and not. The
> ultimate decisions around which elements would be 'required' to be a
> compliant deployment would come back to the TC, and how that compliance
> translates in to trademark usage goes back to the board. But it's the
> job of refstack to be able to test the candidate cloud and report on its
> actual capabilities.
> 
> In conjunction with this a 'reference' deployment config is needed, so
> that we can validate that our test is passable. At the moment I would
> expect this to be the de-facto standard which is devstack, but that's
> ultimately a happenstance and opportunistic config, and over time the
> refstack program would be involved in helping to define a deployment
> configuration or configurations that we as a community feel should
> reasonably be expected to pass our own FITS testing.
> 
> Expected outputs:
>  - A service for submission of cloud endpoint information for testing
>  - Processing of tempest output into a service compliance report
>  - One or more deployment configurations that can, themselves, pass the
> testing 100%

What's the progress been to date? What team of folks has been working on
it?

I see:

  http://refstack.org/
  https://etherpad.openstack.org/RefStackBlueprint
  https://github.com/openstack-ops/refstack

This should be similar to how we evaluate project proposals - I'd expect
to see a decent amount of initial progress and a fairly well solidified
team before accepting a new program.

Cheers,
Mark.