[openstack-dev] [Designate] Tempest Tests - in-repo or separate

Jordan Pittier jordan.pittier at scality.com
Mon Apr 4 15:26:46 UTC 2016


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Hayes, Graham <graham.hayes at hpe.com> wrote:

> As we have started to move to a tempest plugin for our functional test
> suite, we have 2 choices about where it lives.
>
> 1 - In repo (as we have [0] currently)
> 2 - In a repo of its own (something like openstack/designate-tempest)
>
> There are several advantages to a separate repo:
>
> * It will force us to make API changes compatable
> * * This could cause us to be slower at merging changes [1]
> * It allows us to be branchless (like tempest is)
> * It can be its own installable package, and a (much) shorter list
>    of requirements.
>
>
I am not a Designate contributor, but as a Tempest contributor we recommend
to use a separate repo. See
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/plugin.html#standalone-plugin-vs-in-repo-plugin
for more details.

If everyone is OK with a separate repo, I will go ahead and start the
> creation process.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Graham
>
>
> 0 - https://review.openstack.org/283511
> 1 -
>
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/tempest/HACKING.html#branchless-tempest-considerations
>
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