Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Testing Gentoo with openQA

[Francesco Riosa]

2018-02-03 13:16 GMT+01:00 mudler <mudler@g.o>:

> Hi everyone,
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> 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.


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> 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.


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


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


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