Cloud Test Day

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 10:02 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> On 09/01/2011 08:00 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > Since there's so much cloud activity in F-16, perhaps we should organize
> > a test day that covers all the various cloud bits?
> >
> > Looking at the schedule:
> >
> >    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Fedora_16_test_days
> >
> > I guess there's two options:
> >
> >    1) Ask the virt folks very nicely whether they wouldn't mind us
> >       sharing their slot on 2011-09-15
> >
> >    2) Book the 2011-10-20 slot
> I'm not sure offhand how much traffic the virt test day gets - I don't 
> want to wind up overwhelming the QA folks. If we did shoot for 9/15, 
> we'd have to do a lot of heavy lifting in the next 2 weeks as far as 
> coming up with test plans and instructions.

Yeah, you're right. I ran a couple of the virt test days in the past and
it was a big effort to get prepared.

> We have a number of cloud bits we can look at:
> 
> * EC2 image testing (perhaps the beta image, or the most recent RC at 
> that point)
> * Aeolus (not sure how this plays out for testers hardware-wise)
> * HekaFS
> * pacemaker-cloud
> * condor-cloud
> * OpenStack theoretically, possibly CloudStack also
> * Sheepdog (that one might actually fit into the virt test day better, 
> not sure though)
> 
> ...but without test criteria/test matrix, or instructions, some of these 
> are going to be tougher than others.  So I think part of it depends on 
> the availability of feature owners, which over the next 2 weeks might be 
> rough, even if we can wrangle some help from our awesome pals in QA. :)

I'm definitely prepared to get OpenStack test instructions ready for the
2011-10-20 slot.

Cheers,
Mark.