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On Fri, 2020-07-10 at 13:37 +0800, yumeng bao wrote:
> Brin, thanks for bringing this up!
> 
> > Hi all：
> >        This release we want to introduce some 3rd party drivers (e.g. Intel QAT, Inspur FPGA, and Inspur SSD etc.)
> > in Cyborg, and we discussed the handling of 3rd-party driver CI in Cyborg IRC meeting [1].
> >        Due to the lack of CI test environment supported by hardware, we reached a temporary solution in two ways, as
> > follows:
> > 1. Provide a CI environment and provide a tempest test for Cyborg, this method is recommended;
> > 2. If there is no CI environment, please provide the test results of this driver in the master branch or in the
> > designated branch, which should be as complete as possible, sent to the Cyborg team, or pasted in the implementation
> > of the commit.
> 
> Providing test result can be our option. The test result can be part of the driver documentation[0] as this is public
> to users.
> And from my understanding, the test result should work as the role of tempest case and clarify at least: necessary
> configuration,test operations and test results.

i would advise against including the resulsts in docuemntation
add int test results to a commit or provideing tiem at the poitn it merged just tells you it once worked on the
developers system likely using devstack to deploy. it does not tell you that it still work after even a singel addtional
commit has been merged. so i would sugges not adding the results to the docs as they will get out dateded quickly.

maintaining a wiki is fine but i woudl suggest considring any driver that does not have first or thirdparty ci to be
experimental. the generic mdev driver we talked about can be tested using sampel kernel modules that provide
realy mdevs implemnetaion of srial consoles or graphics devices. so it could be validated in first party ci and consider
supported/non experimaental. if other driver can similarly be tested with virtual hardware or sample kernel modules that
allowed testing in the first party ci they could alos be marked as fully supported. with out that level of testing
however i would not advertise a driver as anything more then experimental.

the old rule when i started working on openstack was if its not tested in ci its broken.


> 
> [0] https://docs.openstack.org/cyborg/latest/reference/support-matrix.html#driver-support
> 
> 
> >       [1] http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/openstack_cyborg/2020/openstack_cyborg.2020-07-02-03.05.log.html
> 
> Regards，
> Yumeng
>