Hi Everyone,

Happy Friday!  There have been a number of discussions (at the PTG, at 
OpenStack Summit, in Interop WG and Board of Directors meetings, etc) over the 
past several months about the possibility of creating new interoperability 
programs in addition to the existing OpenStack Powered program administered by 
the Interop Working Group (formerly the DefCore Committee).  In particular, 
lately there have been a lot of discussions recently [1] about where to put 
tests associated with trademark programs with respect to some existing TC 
guidance [2] and community goals for Queens [3].  Although these potential new 
programs have been discussed in a number of places, it’s a little hard to keep 
tabs on where we’re at with them unless you’re actively following the Interop 
WG.  Given the recent discussions on openstack-dev, I thought it might be 
useful to try and brain dump our current thinking on what these new programs 
might look like into a document somewhere that people could point at in 
discussions rather than discussing abstracts and working off memories from 
prior meetings.  To that end, I took a first stab at it this week which you can 
find here:

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/472785/

Needless to say this is just a draft to try to get some of the ideas out of 
neurons and on to electrons, so please don’t take it to be firm 
consensus—rather consider it a draft of what we’re currently thinking and an 
invitation to collaborate.  I expect that other members of the Interop Working 
Group will be leaving comments in Gerrit as we hash through this, and we’d love 
to have input from other folks in the community as well.  These programs 
potentially touch a lot of you (in fact, almost all of you) in some way or 
another, so we’re happy to hear your input as we work on evolving the interop 
programs.  Quite a lot has happened over the past couple of years, so we hope 
this will help folks understand where we came from and think about whether we 
want to make changes going forward.  

By the way, for those of you who might find an HTML-rendered document easier to 
read, click on the "gate-interop-docs-ubuntu-xenial” link in the comments left 
by Jenkins and then on “Extension Programs - Current Direction”.  Thanks, and 
have a great weekend!

[1] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2017-May/thread.html#117657
[2] 
https://governance.openstack.org/tc/resolutions/20160504-defcore-test-location.html
[3] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/goals/queens/split-tempest-plugins.html

At Your Service,

Mark T. Voelker
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