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[Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It has been pointed out that the hour before the openstack meeting
belongs to PPB - so let's make that a proposal for 2 hours before
#openstack-meeting.

On 06/07/2011 10:44 AM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> Hey all!
> 
> It's time to both expand and contract some things around automation and
> testing. Thusfar all of the work on Jenkins and Tarmac and other
> 'official' build and testing automation has been done exclusively by
> Soren and me, In the mean team, several people have been hacking on
> projects that range from helpful to spectacular, and because of lack of
> communication, only some of them are directly useful to the project's
> infrastructure. I'd like to change this. Specificaly, I'd like to make
> sure we can expand how we're working so that there is greater visibility
> in to what/how we doing things in Jenkins land, and that the barrier to
> entry to helping out isn't terrible. And I'd like to contract the number
> of unrelated efforts in to something resembling a plan.
> 
> a) I'm working on geting relevant bits from our jenkins into to VC
> somewhere so that it's easier for us all to collaborate. I'm using the
> launchpad.net/openstack-ci project for that.
> 
> b) I configured the OpenStack Jenkins to use Launchpad's OpenID provider
> as a SSO source - so now I can use Launchpad teams to manage who can do
> what on Jenkins - which means better federation of that management.
> 
> c) I want to set up a regular (say weekly) IRC meeting for everyone
> interested in CI, dev tools and functional/smoke testing. (although for
> sake of sanity, lets keep "interested" to be "interested in working on"
> I was thinking perhaps the hour right before the normal openstack one...
> anybody have strong thoughts? Of the topics/actions to be discussed are
> managing/moving forward with the current work on the testing
> infrastructure, and having discussions about how/if various work by
> folks can be leveraged by the Jenkins that is the gatekeeper over
> openstack branches.
> 
> d) Make sure people know what we're doing over here in OpenStack
> CI/Tools land, so that they are aware of the tools already present so
> that they don't duplicate effort, and also of the current todo list in
> case anyone wants to help. Our Jenkins already does several things that
> it turns out nobody knows about. That's gotta get fixed. (Speaking of-
> if there's any Java folks laying around out there sick of all the
> python, there are a couple of tasks that can use love - more to come on
> that)
> 
> The meeting should be simple this time around - I propose meeting the
> hour before the openstack meeting, starting next week. I don't think we
> really need a separate mailing list, but I'm open to opinions... Also,
> in the mean time, ping me back and let me know if you're wanting to be
> part of this.
> 
> Thanks!
> Monty
> 
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