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Excerpts from Luigi Toscano's message of 2016-07-26 15:02:28 +0200:
> On Tuesday, 26 July 2016 08:34:27 CEST Doug Hellmann wrote:
> > Excerpts from Andrea Frittoli's message of 2016-07-26 10:24:07 +0000:
> > > 
> > > What still requires work in Tempest is the stable interface. Because
> > > plugins are not in the Tempest tree, the QA team recommend that they use
> > > only tempest stable interfaces. Increasing the surface of stable
> > > interfaces
> > > is what keeps a lot of the QA folks busy.
> > > 
> > > There's a lot of code in tempest that was written under the assumption
> > > that
> > > all tests would always live in the tempest tree; evolving that code into a
> > > stable publicly consumable interface is simply a lot of work, which the QA
> > > team is prioritising based on the input from plugins.
> > > 
> > > Tempest plugins are for all right now. Keystone, Cinder and Neutron
> > > already
> > > have a plugin today. We don't want tests which are not relevant for
> > > integration or defcore to be added to Tempest, and that is true for *all*
> > > services.
> > 
> > Thank you for those details, and for confirming that the situation
> > is more or less what I expected (it's in progress, creating a stable
> > API takes work, etc.). Where would someone who wanted to contribute
> > look for details? Are there specs or an etherpad with a task list
> > or something like that?
> Andrea can share more details as he is driving the Client Manager refactors, 
> but for example:
> 
> http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/qa-specs/specs/tempest/client-manager-refactor.html
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/newton-tempest-service-clients

Good.

> 
> > 
> > And just to satisfy my own curiosity, how does someone looking at the
> > internals of tempest know what's on the stable API and what's not
> > considered stable? Are the parts of the API documented separately
> > somehow or is there a different part of the code tree to look at?
> 
> tempest.lib is the stable part (previously split in a separate tempest-lib 
> repository, which is now deprecated as the code was put back into the main 
> tempest repository):
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/overview.html#library

That seems quite clear, thanks.

> 
> Ciao