Open Stack

operators perspective...

you guys had a lot of levity from austin on up to grizzly.  not too many
folks were using openstack back then.  that's not the case anymore.  even
early adopters are exiting greenfield testing, and there's an upswing in
adoption all over.

you can't cut features out without causing us a lot of work.  the lack of
an upgrade path is bad enough, we don't need to deal with containers and
hypervisors being dropped from mainline.  even if it's available from
stackforge... it's being dropped from mainline means something to us.
usually a hell of a lot of work.

and if it means something to us that's different from what you intended,
then you shouldn't have dropped it.  you need to be more restrictive in
your choices as it relates to impacting major features.  now i'm going to
grant you the benefit of the doubt that you think docker is no longer up to
par for openstack's use.  but if that's not the case and this is just a
move to try to motivate developers to write better tempest tests, i'd
suggest you just burned down the barn to get the horses out.  We needed
that barn.  It was a good barn.  And now that it's gone we need to go
figure out where we're going to put our stuff.

-matt


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:32 PM, matt <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:
>
> > I am all for enforcing CI.  But, my understanding of the workflow is code
> > doesn't go in without unit tests.  Frankly you guys removing sections of
> > code for not having proper unit testing is downright terrifying.  Doubly
> so
> > when it's major feature sets.
>
> You are misunderstanding what we mean by CI in this case. We have unit
> tests (although the coverage isn't always great, but its pretty much
> on par with every other software project), but what we're talking
> about here is tempest tests -- which are scenario tests. Things like
> does booting a virtual machine actually work. Does getconsolelog()
> actually return a console. etc etc.
>
> We're raising the bar on testing. That's always a good thing. Worrying
> about what we had in the past doesn't really help, because there's
> nothing I can do about that.
>
> Michael
>
> --
> Rackspace Australia
>
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