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On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 2:21 AM Takashi Yamamoto <yamamoto at midokura.com>
wrote:

> hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Andrea Frittoli
> <andrea.frittoli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > TL;DR: if today you import manager,py from tempest.scenario please
> maintain
> > a copy of [0] in tree until further notice.
> >
> > Full message:
> > ------------------
> >
> > One of the priorities for the QA team in the Pike cycle is to refactor
> > scenario tests to a sane code base [1].
> >
> > As they are now, changes to scenario tests are difficult to develop and
> > review, and failures in those tests are hard to debug, which is in many
> > directions far away from where we need to be.
> >
> > The issue we face is that, even though tempest.scenario.manager is not
> > advertised as a stable interface in Tempest, many project use it today
> for
> > convenience in writing their own tests. We don't know about dependencies
> > outside of the OpenStack ecosystem, but we want to try to make this
> refactor
> > a smooth experience for our uses in OpenStack, and avoid painful gate
> > breakages as much as possible.
> >
> > The process we're proposing is as follows:
> > - hold a copy of [0] in tree - in most cases you won't even have to
> change
> > your imports as a lot of projects use tempest/scenario in their code
> base.
> > You may decide to include the bare minimum you need from that module
> instead
> > of all of it. It's a bit more work to make the patch, but less un-used
> code
> > lying around afterwards.
>
> i submitted patches for a few repos.
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/q/status:open++branch:master+topic:tempest-manager
> i'd suggest to use the same gerrit topic for relevant patches.
>
> Thank you for looking into this!
Having a common gerrit topic is a nice idea: "tempest-manager"

I'm also tracking patches in this etherpad:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/tempest-manager-plugins

andrea

> - the QA team will refactor scenario tests, and make more interfaces
> stable
> > (test.py, credential providers). We won't advertise every single change
> in
> > this process, only when we start and once we're done.
> > - you may decide to discard your local copy of manager.py and consume
> > Tempest stable interfaces directly. We will help with any question you
> may
> > have on the process and on Tempest interfaces.
> >
> > Repositories affected by the refactor are (based on [2]):
> >
> >
> blazar,ceilometer,congress,intel-nfv-ci-tests,ironic,manila,networking-bgpvpn,networking-fortinet,networking-sfc,neutron-fwaas,neutron-lbaas,nova-lxd,octavia,sahara-tests,tap-as-a-service,tempest-horizon,vmware-nsx,watcher
> >
> > If we don't hear from a team at all in the next two weeks, we will assume
> > that the corresponding Tempest plugin / bunch of tests is not in use
> > anymore, and ignore it. If you use tempest.scenario.manager.py today and
> > your repo is not on the list, please let us know!
> >
> > I'm happy to propose an initial patch for any team that may require it -
> > just ping me on IRC (andreaf).
> > I won't have the bandwidth myself to babysit each patch through review
> and
> > gate though.
> >
> > Thank you for your cooperation and patience!
> >
> > Andrea
> >
> > [0]
> >
> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/tempest/tree/tempest/scenario/manager.py
> > [1] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/pike-qa-priorities
> > [2]
> >
> https://github.com/andreafrittoli/tempest_stable_interfaces/blob/master/data/get_deps.sh
> >
> >
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