On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:58:42PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 27/02/2014 14:42, Ademar Reis ha scritto: > >I believe we're all in sync here with the goals. What we're not > >in sync is how to implement it in practice (and I don't see > >anything in the message from Paolo that makes me believe he wants > >the old next concept back). > > As 5% developer, 95% "power user" of virt-test, all I want is a > master branch that I can use for both of these tasks: > > a) developing simple patches and bugfixes > > b) running a few simple test matrices. Most of the time, all I do > is just a sequence of 16 unattended installs with "./run -c > install.cfg -t qemu". Yet it breaks all the time! > > > I only update when I have a particularly pressing itch that requires > me to cook a patch, or when I have to test some new guest that has > just been added. Roughly it's every 2-3 months. All I know is that > when "next" existed, using master just worked, while right now I > cannot even use stable releases because they're just as unstable as > master. This is what made me worry about declining quality of > releases. >
You're being bitten by the timing: with the split into test providers, this is probably the worst time ever to evaluate the stability of virt-test. In the long term, what you probably want is to use a stable release (there should be new releases every week or so). 5% of the time you should run master to submit a patch or get a recent fix before a release is made. > I don't care much about how the integration branch is done. Whether > it's done by automatic scripts or by the maintainer doing "push -f" > repeatedly is a detail that I would not be exposed to. It's quite > possible that Lucas was not doing it in a very orthodox way, and > that it was time consuming. However, the lack of an integration > branch IMHO can be perceived in day-to-day development and usage of > autotest. Thanks for clarifying. Again, I think we all agree here. Cheers. - Ademar -- Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. Red Hat ^[:wq! _______________________________________________ Virt-test-devel mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-test-devel
