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On 12/30/2013 09:32 PM, Anita Kuno wrote:
> Please.
> 
> When your third party testing structure votes on patches and your
> testing structure is not stable, it will vote with a -1 on patches.
> 
> This results in three consequences:
> 1. The patch it votes on starts a countdown for abandonment, this is
> frustrating for developers.
> 2. Reviewers who use -Verified-1 as a filter criteria will not review a
> patch with a -1 in the verification column in the Gerrit dashboard. This
> prevents developers from progressing in their work, and this also
> prevents reviewers from reviewing patches that need to be assessed.
> 3. Third party testing that does not provide publicly accessible logs
> leave developers with no way to diagnose the issue, which makes it very
> difficult for a developer to fix, leaving the patch in a state of limbo.
> 
> You can post messages to the patches, including a stable working url to
> the logs for your tests, as you continue to work on your third party tests.
> 
> You are also welcome to post a success of failure message, just please
> refrain from allowing your testing infrastructure to vote on patches
> until your testing infrastructure is working, reliably, and has logs
> that developers can use to fix problems.
> 
> The list of third party testing accounts are found here.[0]
> 
> Right now there are three plugins that need to remove voting until they
> are stable.
> 
> Please be active in #openstack-neutron, #openstack-qa, and the mailing
> list so that if there is an issue with your testing structure, people
> can come and talk to you.
> 
> Thank you,
> Anita.
> 
> [0]https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/91,members
> 
Keep in mind that the email provided in this list is expected to be an
email people can use to contact you with questions and concerns about
your testing interactions. [0]

The point of the exercise is to provide useful and helpful information
to developers and reviewers so that we all improve our code and create a
better, more integrated product than we have now.

Please check the email inboxes of the email addresses you have provided
and please respond to inquires in a timely fashion.

Please also remember people will look for you on irc, so having a
representative available on irc for discussion will give you some useful
feedback on ensuring your third party testing structure is behaving as
efficiently as possible.

We have a certain level of tolerance for unproductive noise while you
are getting the bugs knocked out of your system. If developers are
trying to contact you for more information and there is no response,
third party testing structures that fail to comply with the expectation
that they will respond to questions, will be addressed on a case by case
basis.

Thank you in advance for your kind attention,
Anita.

[0] https://review.openstack.org/#/admin/groups/91,members