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Re: Coalescing and Coordinating Continuous Integration, Developer Tools, Function and Smoke Testings Efforts

 

/me guesses ical feed is perhaps behind?

On 06/07/2011 03:15 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> Just for verification, this testing meeting is scheduled for 12pm
> Pacfiic on Tuesdays? I just added http://tinyurl.com/openstack-meetings
> to my calendar and it appears to be scheduled for 2pm Pacific on
> Tuesdays. The PPB meeting appears to have last been on a Thursday and
> has no other scheduled instances...
> 
> --andy
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 06/07/2011 02:52 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>     <mailto:mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     > <mailto:mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mordred@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>> 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 <http://launchpad.net/openstack-ci>
>     <http://launchpad.net/openstack-ci>
>     >     project for that.
>     >
>     >
>     > Would you like to check in the various configs I sent you from the
>     anso
>     > setups, should I propose that merge, or do you think that this is not
>     > the proper place for jenkins configs + testing scripts?
> 
>     I can stick them in or you can. I'm not particularly thrilled with the
>     jenkins config.xml + version control story at the moment. (although I
>     did add the config history plugin so that we're not just constantly
>     overwriting that stuff through the web) (if you stick them in, shove
>     them in a subfolder or something- I've currently checking the
>     openstack-ci branch out straight in to the jenkins root.
> 
>     >
>     >     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.
>     >
>     >
>     > Yay for no longer having manual config there :)
> 
>     zomg. you're not kidding.
> 
>     >     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.
>     >
>     >
>     > I suppose I should be on that list.
> 
>     Done. Thanks!
> 
>     >     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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