[Openstack] Coalescing and Coordinating Continuous Integration, Developer Tools, Function and Smoke Testings Efforts

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Tue Jun 7 18:41:55 UTC 2011


+1 from me too, definitely a crucial behind-the-scenes job. I can haz
automated doc builds now thanks to you and CI, and I do appreciate it.

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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Devin Carlen <devin.carlen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Monty,
>
> +1 to all of this.  We appreciate all the work you guys have done keeping
> this stuff going.
>
> On Jun 7, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>
> > Hey all!
> >
> > It's time to both expand and contract some things around automation and
> > testing. Thusfar all of the work on Jenkins and Tarmac and other
> > 'official' build and testing automation has been done exclusively by
> > Soren and me, In the mean team, several people have been hacking on
> > projects that range from helpful to spectacular, and because of lack of
> > communication, only some of them are directly useful to the project's
> > infrastructure. I'd like to change this. Specificaly, I'd like to make
> > sure we can expand how we're working so that there is greater visibility
> > in to what/how we doing things in Jenkins land, and that the barrier to
> > entry to helping out isn't terrible. And I'd like to contract the number
> > of unrelated efforts in to something resembling a plan.
> >
> > a) I'm working on geting relevant bits from our jenkins into to VC
> > somewhere so that it's easier for us all to collaborate. I'm using the
> > launchpad.net/openstack-ci project for that.
> >
> > b) I configured the OpenStack Jenkins to use Launchpad's OpenID provider
> > as a SSO source - so now I can use Launchpad teams to manage who can do
> > what on Jenkins - which means better federation of that management.
> >
> > c) I want to set up a regular (say weekly) IRC meeting for everyone
> > interested in CI, dev tools and functional/smoke testing. (although for
> > sake of sanity, lets keep "interested" to be "interested in working on"
> > I was thinking perhaps the hour right before the normal openstack one...
> > anybody have strong thoughts? Of the topics/actions to be discussed are
> > managing/moving forward with the current work on the testing
> > infrastructure, and having discussions about how/if various work by
> > folks can be leveraged by the Jenkins that is the gatekeeper over
> > openstack branches.
> >
> > d) Make sure people know what we're doing over here in OpenStack
> > CI/Tools land, so that they are aware of the tools already present so
> > that they don't duplicate effort, and also of the current todo list in
> > case anyone wants to help. Our Jenkins already does several things that
> > it turns out nobody knows about. That's gotta get fixed. (Speaking of-
> > if there's any Java folks laying around out there sick of all the
> > python, there are a couple of tasks that can use love - more to come on
> > that)
> >
> > The meeting should be simple this time around - I propose meeting the
> > hour before the openstack meeting, starting next week. I don't think we
> > really need a separate mailing list, but I'm open to opinions... Also,
> > in the mean time, ping me back and let me know if you're wanting to be
> > part of this.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Monty
> >
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