Hey, So we've talked about this a bit and had a number of ideas regarding how to test and show compatibility for third-party drivers in Cinder. This has been an eye opening experience (the number of folks that have NEVER run tempest before, as well as the problems uncovered now that they're trying it).
I'm even more convinced now that having vendors run these tests is a good thing and should be required. That being said there's a ton of push back from my proposal to require that results from a successful run of the tempest tests to accompany any new drivers submitted to Cinder. The consensus from the Cinder community for now is that we'll log a bug for each driver after I3, stating that it hasn't passed certification tests. We'll then have a public record showing drivers/vendors that haven't demonstrated functional compatibility, and in order to close those bugs they'll be required to run the tests and submit the results to the bug in Launchpad. So, this seems to be the approach we're taking for Icehouse at least, it's far from ideal IMO, however I think it's still progress and it's definitely exposed some issues with how drivers are currently submitted to Cinder so those are positive things that we can learn from and improve upon in future releases. To add some controversy and keep the original intent of having only known tested and working drivers in the Cinder release, I am going to propose that any driver that has not submitted successful functional testing by RC1 that that driver be removed. I'd at least like to see driver maintainers try... if the test fails a test or two that's something that can be discussed, but it seems that until now most drivers just flat out are not even being tested. Thanks, John _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
