[ovirt-devel] vdsm meeting summary - 23.2.16

[Yaniv Bronheim]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Nir Soffer <nsoffer at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Yaniv Bronheim <ybronhei at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (Nir, Adam, YanivB, Dan, Milan, Piotr, Francesco, Martin Polednik, Edward)
>>
>> - Some of us started to work on refactoring for python3, basic file
>> movements and improving testings
>>
>>  - We added functional tests to check-merged automation script -
>> currently, for some reason, it doesn't run tests that require root. I'm on
>> it.
>>
>>  - if anyone know that their functional tests work good please add them
>> to the list
>> so they will run each merge
>>
>>  - moving code from supervdsmServer to supervdsm_api - follow
>> https://gerrit.ovirt.org/53496 and move also virt, storage and sla part
>>
>>  - Nir says to use the weekly contact from storage team to help with
>> verification about storage code changes- I'll try to reach them next week
>> to test direct LUN
>>
>
> Tal should know who is the qe contact
>

can you publish it somewhere or send mail to the devels when you change
shifts?
I struggle with testing specific rpms with ovirt-system-tests currently -
it requires some tweaks there and I prefer to trust your verification - I
moved blkid, parted_utils, hostdev, alignmentScan - how do you suggest to
approve that it didn't break anything (https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/53897/4
)


>
>>
>>   - I also wanted to use lago basic_suite (ovirt-system-tests) to run
>> full flow from specific vdsm commit - but the infrastructure for that
>> requires many manual steps and its not easy as I expected it to be.
>>
>> - moving code from vdsm dir (/usr/share/vdsm/) to site-packages/vdsm (by
>> moving them to lib/vdsm) - this is required to avoid relative imports which
>> are not allowed in python3 - storage dir is the main gap we currently have.
>>
>> - python-modernize - Dan uses it for network tests dir and encourage us
>> to start running it for our parts
>>
>
> Where is this tool?
>

 dnf install python-modernize


>
>>
>> - there are some schema changes, mostly removal parts that Piotr posted
>> as part of converting to yaml structure. this code needs to be reviewed
>> - Nir asks to keep the current API order instead of sorting by names
>> - Nir concerns about yaml notation looks for a list with single element
>>
>
> Whis is less nice than the previous notation:
>
> new:
>
>     - name: pathlist
>         type:
>             - *IscsiSessionInfo
>
> old:
>
>           'pathlist': ['IscsiSessionInfo'],
>
> I don't see how to make this better.
>
> - split the yaml schema to several files is complex but nir asks to see if
>> its possible
>>
>> - storage team mainly works hard on SDM patches
>>
>> - Edward works on splitting network tests between unit tests and
>> integration tests which do environment setup changes
>>
>> - we currently don't run the slow test automatically
>> - we might want more "tags" for tests such as SlowTests, StressTests
>>
>
> We can solve this issue by marking tests as slowtest, but we better use
> more
> specific tags such as "integration", for tests that depend on the
> environment, and
> "privileged" for tests that requires root.
>

>
>>
>> And the most important issue - vdsm for ovirt 4.0 will keep only 3.6
>> backward compatibility - if you don't agree with that statement, please say
>> why ... but as far as we see it, this is the direction and we already
>> removing 3.5 stuff.
>>
>
> +2 from storage side
>
>
>>
>> Thanks all for participating,
>>
>
> Thanks for taking the notes!
>
> Nir
>
>


-- 
*Yaniv Bronhaim.*
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