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Zane Bitter <zbitter at redhat.com> wrote on 10/22/2018 03:12:46 PM:
> On 22/10/18 10:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > On 10/19/18 5:17 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:

<snip>

> >> Integration Tests
> >> -----------------
> >>
> >> Integration tests do test, amongst other things, integration with
> >> non-openstack-supplied things in the distro, so it's important that we
> >> test on the actual distros we have identified as popular.[2] It's also
> >> important that every project be testing on the same distro at the end
of
> >> a release, so we can be sure they all work together for users.
> >
> > I find very disturbing to see the project only leaning toward these
only
> > 2 distributions. Why not SuSE & Debian?
>
> The bottom line is it's because targeting those two catches 88% of our
> users. (For once I did not make this statistic up.)
>
> Also note that in practice I believe almost everything is actually
> tested on Ubuntu LTS, and only TripleO is testing on CentOS. It's
> difficult to imagine how to slot another distro into the mix without
> doubling up on jobs.

I think you meant 78%, assuming you were looking at the latest User Survey
results [1], page 55. Still a hefty number.

It is important to note that the User Survey lumps all versions of a given
OS together, whereas the TC reference [2] only considers the latest
LTS/stable version. If the User Survey split out latests LTS/stable
versions vs. others (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS), I expect we'd see Ubuntu 18.04
LTS + Centos 7 adding up to much less than 78%.

[1] https://www.openstack.org/assets/survey/April2017SurveyReport.pdf
[2]
https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/project-testing-interface.html#linux-distributions
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