[Publicity] Draft: Xen Project automatic testing on community infrastructure

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[ Here is a draft blog posting text.  Comments welcome.  I'm editing
  it in plain text here in my editor for now; I'll put it into the
  blog software and linkify it when the structure seems stable. ]

Currently the Xen Project's automatic testing setup[link to a flight
results page?] runs on a small set of hardware in space borrowed from
Citrix.  Because it's on the Citrix network it's not possible to give
access to other community members.  The underlying systems are
creaking rather.  And the system is too small - we already find that
testing is rather too slow.

The Xen Project Test Framework Working Group has agreed to press
forward with a plan to provide a new setup (in a public colo,
probably).  We have a budget for this from the Advisory Board which we
think will be sufficient to provide a bigger and better setup than we
have now.

We have decided to separate this immediately pressing concern - the
inadequate and inaccessible hosting - from the longer-term questions
of how to make more use of Xen community members' existing test
software.  In particular, we have deferred the question of whether to
stick with the existing osstest[link to osstest.git] system long-term,
or move to another system such as Citrix's XenRT.

We'll consider whether, when and how to make such a transition after
we have sorted out our underlying infrastructure.  We will make sure
that the hardware and facilities we are organising now will be
suitable for whatever software system we might want to run.

So our immediate task now is to set out a more detailed plan for the
amount and kind of hardware to acquire, and to identify a suitable
hosting facility.

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