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On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Joe Hakim Rahme <jhakimra at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 10:36 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> >
> > Toni, sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm not advocating for this, I wanted to
> > bring Joe into this discussion to see whether the solution that John
> > suggested will help them as well - I wanted to broaden the scope of
> > this since it's not only neutron that faces this.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Just to be clear, my intention with the repo I'm trying to create is
> to hold tests that are not acceptable in upstream Tempest by design
> (mainly whitebox testing). I think what John was referring to (correct
> me if I'm wrong) are tests that are acceptable Tempest tests but we
> lack the required infrastrcuture (hardware, images, ...) to run them
> in the gate.
>
> I realize now that the name I chose "nova-tempest-staging" might be
> misleading and I think it should be changed. Maybe something like
> "tempest-whitebox-plugin" might be more descriptive?
>

This sounds like a generic repo, not specific or tied to service. Not being
specific sounds much better to me.

I liked the idea and would be willing to help out in the effort, but agree
it needs more thorough discussion.


>
> As for the topic of skip-only tests, I think that it'd be a shame to
> reject valid and valuable tests simply because the gate is not equipped
> to run them. There are use cases for Tempest outside of the upstream
> gate, so marking certain tests as valid-but-skipped-in-the-gate seems
> like an acceptable solution to me.
>
> (I'm not a maintainer of the Tempest repo so please take my opinion
> with a grain of salt).
>
> Cheers,
> Joe
>
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