[Openstack] Announcing Nova subteams

Nirmal Ranganathan rnirmal at gmail.com
Mon Oct 17 20:39:11 UTC 2011


Hi Vish,

Sounds good, I'm all for trying out new things. I think updates on the main
openstack list would help.


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya
<vishvananda at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Nirmal,
>
> I understand the concern.  I really want to keep these sub teams focused on
> implementation details as opposed to large theoretical discussions.
>  Separate mailing lists may not be the best solution, but lets let it go for
> a couple of months and re-evaluate.  Keep in mind that it is just a few
> clicks to sign up for any team/list.  I can also get the leads to make
> regular updates to the main openstack list so everyone can get a high-level
> overview of the planned changes.
>
> Vish
>
> On Oct 17, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Nirmal Ranganathan wrote:
>
> Separating into subteams seems like a good idea and will allow more focus
> on certain areas, but having separate mailing lists for each team might be a
> little too overkill, could lead to fragmented development discussions. Even
> to have a cursory overview of what's happening in the teams will require you
> to subscribe to each of the mailing lists, unless the openstack mailing list
> is cc'd in all the emails, at which point it becomes pointless to have the
> subteam mailing lists.
>
>
> Nirmal
>
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Vishvananda Ishaya
>> <vishvananda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Nova Testing Cleanup Team
>> > https://launchpad.net/~nova-testing
>> > We have discussed cleaning up the unit tests and separating out
>> integration
>> > tests for a while, but this needs a specific team to focus on it.  We
>> need
>> > volunteers and a lead.
>> > lead - (no lead yet)
>>
>> Good stuff, Vish, thanks for sharing! Just an FYI, part of the
>> OpenStack QA team (folks from NTT) is focusing on cleaning up and
>> improving the unit test coverage and quality of Nova. The OpenStack QA
>> team meets regularly (Wednesdays at noon EDT) and you should have
>> started seeing a steady stream of incoming bug reports regarding test
>> coverage and fixes.
>>
>> For each component in Nova, the NTT team is writing traceability
>> matrices (test analysis documents) and submitting bug reports when a)
>> the specification for a component does not match the code behaviour,
>> b) when there is no specification for a pieces of code, and c) where
>> tests are not actually testing the correct behaviour. You can see
>> these bugs and traceability matrices in the bug reports (as Google
>> Docs spreadsheets) here:
>>
>> http://bit.ly/paxoxj
>>
>> I recognize that branches are linked in Launchpad instead of Gerrit,
>> and I'm working with the NTT folks to correct that.
>>
>> Nati-san from NTT is leading his team and can be a good contact for
>> the small/unit testing side for Nova.
>>
>> Cheers!
>> -jay
>>
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