On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Ian Wienand <iwien...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > With [1] merged, we now have people working on creating external > plugins for devstack. > The devstack plugin concept seems logical and useful to me. GlusterFS Cinder CI is probably the first one implementing the plugin. See https://review.openstack.org/#/c/146822/ > > I worry about use of arbitrary external locations as plugins for gate > jobs. If a plugin is hosted externally (github, bitbucket, etc) we > are introducing a whole host of problems when it is used as a gate > job. Lack of CI testing for proposed changes, uptime of the remote > end, ability to accept contributions, lack of administrative access > and consequent ability to recover from bad merges are a few. > +1 One suggestion. The doc for creating a new project at stackforge ( http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/creators.html ) is for a full blown community project, there are few stuff that can be skipped/ignored for the devstack-plugin case. Would it be a good idea to take that doc and trim it to have just enuf details that apply for creating a new devstack-plugin project ? > > I would propose we agree that plugins used for gate testing should be > hosted in stackforge unless there are very compelling reasons > otherwise. > > To that end, I've proposed [2] as some concrete wording. If we agree, > I could add some sort of lint for this to project-config testing. > +1 thanx, deepak > > Thanks, > > -i > > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/142805/ (Implement devstack external > plugins) > [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/146679/ (Document use of plugins for > gate jobs) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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