Evaluating MozTrap as a TCMS for Fedora QA

[Amita Sharma]

On 08/14/2014 01:55 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On 2014-08-13 14:48, Amita Sharma wrote:
>
>>> We spent a few hackfest hours at Flock doing a preliminary 
>>> evaluation of
>>> MozTrap. We certainly didn't make any decisions yet, but we at least
>>> span up some test instances and played around with it a little. So far
>>> we've found some really nice things, some that seem a bit awkward or
>>> messy, and some where we might need to send some patches (e.g.
>>> integrating with FAS / OpenID).
>> Heya,
>>
>> Can we get details of nice things and messy things or is it all what
>> piratepad contains?
>
> Yeah, the piratepad was basically the notes for the session. I believe 
> we put all the things we noticed in there. If any of the notes is hard 
> to understand ("you had to be there" :>)
Mea culpa.

you missed one last question :: If this decision is made, have we 
thought about the migration/porting of existing wiki test case/plans to 
tcms?
> ask and one of us will explain, if we can remember.
>
>>> We used a Piratepad to take rough notes during one of the hackfests:
>>> http://piratepad.net/FedoraMozTrap
>>>
>>> We also chatted to some of the upstream developers, who are 
>>> available in
>>> #moztrap on Mozilla IRC, and they seem open minded and willing to take
>>> suggestions and patches, which is great.
>>>
>>> Mike and Tim I think are planning to set up a sandbox deployment in 
>>> "The
>>> Cloud" somewhere - something quick and dirty and not suitable for
>>> production, just available so we can play with the system in a shared
>>> deployment.
>
>> will that be open for every one use?
>
> That was basically the idea. I don't know if we'd set it up for open 
> registration or just do manual account creations for anyone on test@ 
> who wanted to play with it, but yeah, the idea was to let all of us 
> mess around with an instance.
>
>>> In the meantime, if you want to check it out, it's pretty
>>> easy to set up a local deployment following this guide:
>>>
>>> http://moztrap.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html
>>>
>>> what you get is not remotely suitable for opening to non-local access
>>> (it's very insecure and would give poor performance) but it works fine
>>> for local testing.
>
>> I tried to set it up on one of my F20 VM, but flunked, 
>> troubleshooting yet.
>
> What did you have trouble with? IIRC the instructions are wrong at one 
> point, about where you create the virtualenv - you should do it in the 
> *top level* moztrap dir, i.e. do 'git checkout' and then 'virtualenv 
> moztrap', not cd into moztrap before doing the virtualenv. I went back 
> and forth on that one for a bit. But that's from memory, I might 
> possibly be wrong.
I am still trying.

Thanks,
Ami