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On 04/04/2016 16:36, Jordan Pittier wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Hayes, Graham <graham.hayes at hpe.com
> <mailto:graham.hayes at hpe.com>> wrote:
>
>     As we have started to move to a tempest plugin for our functional test
>     suite, we have 2 choices about where it lives.
>
>     1 - In repo (as we have [0] currently)
>     2 - In a repo of its own (something like openstack/designate-tempest)
>
>     There are several advantages to a separate repo:
>
>     * It will force us to make API changes compatable
>     * * This could cause us to be slower at merging changes [1]
>     * It allows us to be branchless (like tempest is)
>     * It can be its own installable package, and a (much) shorter list
>         of requirements.
>
> I am not a Designate contributor, but as a Tempest contributor we
> recommend to use a separate repo. See
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/plugin.html#standalone-plugin-vs-in-repo-plugin
> for more details.

Yeap - that was one of the reasons I will leaning towards the separate
repo. The only thing stopping us was that I cannot see any other project
who does it [2]

We just had a quick discussion in IRC[3] and we are going to go with
the separate repo anyway.

2 - 
http://codesearch.openstack.org/?q=%5Etempest&i=nope&files=setup.cfg&repos=
3 - 
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-dns/%23openstack-dns.2016-04-04.log.html#t2016-04-04T15:05:38


>     If everyone is OK with a separate repo, I will go ahead and start the
>     creation process.
>
>     Thanks
>
>     - Graham
>
>
>     0 - https://review.openstack.org/283511
>     1 -
>     http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/HACKING.html#branchless-tempest-considerations
>
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