On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Prasanna Santhanam < prasanna.santha...@citrix.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:09:35AM -0400, Alex Karasulu wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Kevin Kluge <kevin.kl...@citrix.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi Alex, glad to hear you think the community is working well. We > > > followed the template that was pre-existing and added content to it. > > > Personally I think it's fine, but this is my first involvement in > producing > > > this report so would certainly appreciate feedback. > > > > > > > > Doh! It looks like I have missed a few conversations :-(. Brett just gave > > me a heads up. > > > > I've read and reviewed the report and it looks great. I have only one > > additional recommendation and it's optional at best. > > > > If you remember, there was some discussion over how we can put individual > > committers without vast hardware resources at an equal footing with those > > working for companies having the infrastructure to support development, > > like Citrix employees for example. > > > > We talked about a service being exposed for integration testing code > pushes > > and you mentioned an integration testing framework that Citrix may make > > available so all contributions can be thoroughly tested. This would in > turn > > make it easier for those without hardware resources at their disposal to > > participate and would decrease the time for us to apply patches. Could we > > make mention of this in the report? I thought it might be good for the > > board to know that we're considering this issue and that we're taking > steps > > towards solving it. > > Hi Alex, > > We are coming together to set up the necessary hardware so external > committers without infrastructure can push tests using our integration > framework. This will most likely start off with a small rack of hosts > using one hypervisor to start with and we'll expand it as we go. We > are experimenting with it now and hope to announce it soon. > > I will work with Ahmad, Chandan and others who manage our lab in > SantaClara on this. We'll mostly be talking more about it on the list > in the coming weeks. > > Also - In the coming week we'll be announcing the integration test > framework > on the dev lists. Edison presented a demo of this at the bootcamp and > I'm guessing some of the folks here were there to see it. > > OK we need not mention it in this report then. There was an email or two on how cloud projects bias those working in big institutions with vast hardware resources verses individuals. I wanted to just get a snippet in there showing that we're actively confronting the issue. But I don't think it's that big of a deal. We can show a concrete solution in the next incubator report rather than just hinting about one now. Thanks for the heads up. -- Best Regards, -- Alex
