Excerpts from Herndon, John Luke's message of 2014-01-03 08:17:15 -0800: > > On 1/2/14, 7:06 PM, "Sean Dague" <s...@dague.net> wrote: > > >On 01/02/2014 08:36 PM, Robert Collins wrote: > >> On 3 January 2014 14:34, Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net> > >>wrote: > >>> On 3 January 2014 12:40, Herndon, John Luke <john.hern...@hp.com> > >>>wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On 1/2/14, 4:27 PM, "Clint Byrum" <cl...@fewbar.com> wrote: > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>> I don¹t think it would be that hard to get the review or gate jobs to > >>>>use > >>>> a real vertica instance, actually. Who do I talk to about that? > >>> > >>> http://ci.openstack.org/third_party.html > >> > >> Oh, if you meant setting up a gate variant to use vertica community > >> edition - I'd run it past the ceilometer folk and then just submit > >> patches to devstack, devstack-gate and infra/config to do it. > >> > >> devstack - code for setting up a real vertica > >> devstack-gate - handles passing the right flags to devstack for the > >> configuration scenarios we test against > >> infra/config - has the jenkins job builder definitions to define the > >>jobs > > > >I think general policy (thus far) has been that we're not going to put > >non Open Source software into upstream gate jobs. > > > >So you really should approach this via 3rd party testing instead. The > >DB2 folks are approaching it that way, for that reason. > > Ok, that makes sense, but tbh, setting up 3rd party testing is going to be > as much or more work than writing the driver. Given schedule constraints, > it probably isn¹t feasible right now. I think for starters, I will write > some unit tests that ensure that changes to the storage interface don¹t > break the driver, and will work on a 3rd party testing strategy over time. >
From my perspective, I would -2 any change to projects I'm a core on if they just add a 3rd party driver without a commitment to testing. After seeing what Nova went through with this, it doesn't seem like a "should" but a "must". _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
