On 04/02/2018 11:16, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> 2018-02-03 13:16 GMT+01:00 mudler <[email protected]>:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>>
>> This is an idea that has been floating around already, as some of you
>> already know, openQA [1] is a project that provides the ability to fully
>> test  O.S.
>>
> Being used to routinely build Gentoo profiles, this idea is one of the
> first to pop up, indeed.
>
>
>> I'd like to bring openQA to Gentoo, and start using it for both testing,
>> and maybe, if promising at it seems, using it to automatize even more
>> our testing workflow and help stabilization processes.
>>
> simply Great.

Glad to hear that!

>
>
>> I'm creating a new project for this, the aim is first to provide ebuilds
>> for openQA, and meanwhile writing test cases that can be used to test
>> Gentoo inside it. As i see it, it would be really helpful exp. regarding
>> testing DEs  and track back regressions as well [2], it offers also
>> integrations with bugzilla.
>>
> One of the first things noticed when trying to achieve full testing is that
> it's a gigantic work. Suse seem to have a really good framework that
> surely costed a lot to build.
> How much can be reused of that work?

I would say approx ~30% of test codebase could be reused, but this is
just my personal estimation.


> What are the differences, in features and building blocks expected for a
> gentoo implementation?

I don't see any big changes in the structure - rather of writing tests
that suits more on our needs.
But baby steps, i would be happy to see for now a test that from a
stage3 bootstraps a DE environment correctly.
What i see will be more complicated is trying to abstract tests that
expect different results from different useflags combinations.

>
>
>> Development plan and goals will be updated to the Project page soon [3]
>>
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
> That's a difficult objective worth the effort to achieve it

I definitely agree

>
>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ettore
>>
>>
>> 1: http://open.qa/
>>
>> 2: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/600283
>>
>> 3: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:OpenQA
>>
>>
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