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[Jim Curry <jim.curry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Soren, can you clarify what you mean by Ubuntu being the primary platform?  Why is that the reference?  What limitations does this introduce?

Jim

On Feb 17, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Soren Hansen wrote:

> 2011/2/17 Brian Schott <bfschott@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> One thing we saw in the list and experienced first hand is that your Hudson server uses a pre-configured environment and ours pulls virtual env every time.  We had failures on trunk that yours missed because of new pip pulled versions.
> 
>> A fresh run_tests.sh -f needs to work.  It is the only guaranteed sanity test everybody can replicate.
> 
> That's not technically accurate. Every part of the environment in
> which we run the tests can be rebuilt in a reproducible manner.
> Everything on that box is packaged and available in a PPA from which
> anyone can build an identical test system.
> 
>>  It might pull upstream bugs, but better to be ahead of that curve than behind.
> 
> I agree that the status quo is not good enough. However, I don't agree
> that we should pull stuff from pip directly. Ubuntu is our primary
> target platform, that's the reference, that's where we absolutely
> *must* function. I'd be *delighted* if we tested our stuff more
> broadly, and I welcome efforts to do so, but whether this works on
> Ubuntu or not is the deal breaker.
> 
> That said, our tests right now are run on Maverick with a set of
> backported packages (all available in a PPA, though), but really ought
> to run on Natty. We should look into that ASAP.
> 
> -- 
> Soren Hansen
> Ubuntu Developer    http://www.ubuntu.com/
> OpenStack Developer http://www.openstack.org/
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