Open Stack

On 04/12/2014 02:27 PM, James E. Blair wrote:
> Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> writes:
> 
>> Agreed, where it makes sense. In general we should be avoiding third
>> party CI unless we need to support something we can't in the gate -- a
>> proprietary virt driver, or weird network hardware for example. I
>> think we've now well and truly demonstrated that third party CI
>> implementations are hard to run well.
>>
>> Docker doesn't meet either of those tests.
>>
>> However, I can see third party CI being a stepping stone required by
>> the infra team to reduce their workload -- in other words that they'd
>> like to see things running consistently as a third party CI before
>> they move it into their world. However, I'll leave that call to the
>> infra team.
> 
> Well put, Michael and Russel.  We see the test infrastructure as a
> commons that helps enable new projects join the community.  Any tests
> that involve open source components that physically can run in the
> project infrastructure almost certainly should.  That helps with
> repeatability, maintenance, and integration into the OpenStack community
> and eventually project.
> 
> As far as workload goes, I wouldn't ask for a third-party CI setup first
> to demonstrate viability because as you say, it's quite a bit of work.
> What would be very helpful is to try to do as much local testing of
> proposed jobs before submitting a review to infra to add the job.  Most
> folks are pretty good about that already.  Also, reviews of jobs changes
> are always welcome in the openstack-infra/config repository!  Both of
> those things will help with infra review workload tremendously, and
> still take less time than running private infrastructure.
> 
> I look forward to seeing docker tests running in OpenStack
> infrastructure soon.

Thanks a bunch for the support, Jim.  Hopefully we can get this all up
and running as early as possible in the cycle so that it doesn't
distract from other things in the higher pressure time of the cycle
(towards the end), which is how things happened last cycle on this front.

-- 
Russell Bryant