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

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

Wei,
any objections to publishing your post today? I ran behind on all my stuff
Lars

On 26/09/2013 15:51, Wei Liu wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 03:37:50PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> [...]
> > > > It occurs to me that for the osstest->XenRT transition, a first step
> > > > would be to get XenRT running on the xenproject.org testbed. That
> > > > will help shake out all the random assumptions about the environment
> > > > that may have ended up baked into the code.  We should probably try
> > > > to touch base with the XenRT team about that, after IanJ comes back
> > > >from holiday.
> > > I completly get the short term - we need osstest, long term lets look
> > > at Xen RT. Perhaps the blog can mention Xen RT as the more longterm
> > > transition and enumerate some of the things it does?
> > Well the purpose of the blog is a how-to of how to get osstest up
> > and running; having a big section on XenRT would be out of place.
> > Also, I doubt Wei has any personal experience with XenRT, so he's
> > not exactly in a position to extol its benefits.  That would be
> > better done by someone on the XenRT team, and in a different blog.
> >
> > But we should probably at least mention it, and how osstest relates
> > to it.  How about something like this:
> >
> > "Some readers may recall the recent announcement of open-sourcing
> > XenRT, and wondering about the relationship between osstest and
> > XenRT.  Long-term, we expect that XenRT will mature as an open
> > development project and eventually displace osstest.  But that is
> > not likely to happen for another six months to a year.  Developing
> > osstest has benefits for the current development, and we hope that
> > getting people involved in writing test cases for osstest will be of
> > service in helping people write test cases for XenRT when it becomes
> > available.  So we have decided to continue to develop osstest until
> > XenRT is ready to replace it."
> Thanks!
>
> >   -George

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