Re: [Publicity] Blog post: OSSTest Standalone Mode Step by Step

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:17:03PM +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:34:04PM +0100, Lars Kurth wrote:
> > Wei,
> > 
> > thanks. I will leave it to others to comment. Would you be willing to put
> > together a wiki page based on the post and post to xen-devel? I had a
> 
> Yes, sure.
> 
> > conversation with IanC at LinuxCon about the lack of people using OSS Test.
> > I believe the two main reasons for the lack of pick-up so far are:
> > a) It is unclear how to build OSS Test into the dev routine (this post +
> > wiki should address this)
> 
> I think it can address part of the problem, but not all of it. There're
> still lots of details I'm not able to go into in a single post.
> 
> The sole purpose of this post is to help people bootstrap using OSSTest.
> Once they're en route they're pretty much on their own and everything
> boils down to "read the source code".

It does detract from the Xen RT which long-term ought to be used (IMHO).

As it has a ton of features that can help in making Xen and Linux
work fantasticly well  - and catch not only bootup/bug regressions
but also performance regressions.

> 
> Wei.
> 
> > b) We have been broadcasting pleas to use "OSS Test" in a blanket fashion
> > to xen-devel
> > 
> > I believe, that we would be more successful, if reviewers could point out
> > to submitters of patches that in a specific patch submission a new OSS Test
> > would be very valuable/appreciated/in their own interest. I also believe
> > that once a submitter has written a couple of tests, they will see the
> > value of OSS Test themselves.
> > 
> > In any case, I do not want to cover this in detail on the publicity list.
> > This would be better discussed on xen-devel, but I need a "hook" to kick
> > off the discussion.
> > 
> > Lars
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I played with OSSTest standalone mode last week and wrote a blog post
> > > about it. Feedbacks welcome!
> > >
> > > http://blog.xen.org/?p=7930&preview=true
> > >
> > > Wei.
> > >
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