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 ---- On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 04:08:35 +0900 Sean McGinnis <sean.mcginnis at gmx.com> wrote ---- 
 > > 
 > > There is no issue of backward incompatibility from Tempest and on Gate. GATE
 > > is always good as it is going with mater version or minimum supported version
 > > in plugins as you mentioned. We take care of all these things you mentioned
 > > which is our main goal also. 
 > > 
 > > But If we think from Cloud tester perspective where they use older version of
 > > tempest for particular OpenStack release but there is no corresponding
 > > tag/version from plugins to use them for that OpenStack release. 
 > > 
 > > Idea is here to have a tag from Plugins also like Tempest does currently for
 > > each OpenStack release so that user can pickup those tag and test their
 > > Complete Cloud. 
 > > 
 > 
 > Thanks for the further explanation Ghanshyam. So it's not so much that newer
 > versions of tempest may break the current repo plugins, it's more to the fact
 > that any random plugin that gets pulled in has no way of knowing if it can take
 > advantage of a potentially older version of tempest that had not yet introduced
 > something the plugin is relying on.
 > 
 > I think it makes sense for the tempest plugins to be following the
 > cycle-with-intermediary model. This would allow plugins to be released at any
 > point during a given cycle and would then have a way to match up a "release" of
 > the plugin.
 > 
 > Release repo deliverable placeholders are being proposed for all the tempest
 > plugin repos we could find. Thanks to Doug for pulling this all together:
 > 
 > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/578141/
 > 
 > Please comment there if you see any issues.

Thanks. That's correct understanding and goal of this thread which is from production cloud testing point of view not just *gate*. 
cycle-with-intermediary model fulfill the user's requirement which they asked in summit. 

Doug patch lgtm.

-gmann

 > 
 > Sean
 > 
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