Re: [rdo-list] Improving the test day experience

Hi Harry, Where ought I to report bugs found in testing those docs? Cheers, Adam On 21 Sep 2016 6:55 pm, "Harry Rybacki" <hrybacki(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > I would also like to throw out that we are in the process of expanding > coverage for TripleO-Quickstart post-build generated documentation. > > For the last test day, we had three sets of example docs available[1]: > - minimal > - baremetal > - ovb > > Hopefully there will be docs for updates and upgrades to follow > shortly. As discussed with rbowen in today's RDO meeting, we will have > these docs linked in the test matrix for the next test day for > increased visibility. > > [1] - http://images.rdoproject.org/docs/ > > > /R > > Harry > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Javier Pena <javier.pena(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> In our RDO Community Meeting (on IRC) yesterday, the topic of improving > >> test day was brought up. > >> > >> Test day is, for the most part, about getting people to beat on the > >> latest packages and find problems. However, since most of these > problems > >> are being found in CI, it's time to make test day also about giving > >> people an opportunity to see what's coming in future releases. To that > >> end, user experience is pretty important on test day. > >> > >> Several suggestions were made to improve the test day experience for > >> folks that aren't already experts: > >> > >> > >> * Test setup matrix cleanup? Remove tests that are no longer relevant. > >> > >> * More detailed, beginner-friendly instructions for testing. (Test day > >> as product preview for potential users, or existing users who are not > >> deep experts.) > >> > >> * Ask other teams to provide use cases they want to validate. > >> > >> * Tracking the tests on an etherpad with instructions, and registering > >> people to use cases, so that we're sure that everything is being > covered. > >> > >> > >> While these are all great suggestions, each requires that someone > >> actually step up and make it happen. Each test day, for example, we > talk > >> about better instructions for the test scenarios, and everyone agrees > >> that it's a good idea. > >> > >> Anyways, as we start looking towards Ocata, are there other suggestions > >> as to how we can make the test day more welcoming to folks trying out > >> RDO for the first time, and existing OpenStack users looking for a > >> preview of the next release, as well as the usual suspects? And, as > >> importantly, people who are able to make some of these things happen? > >> > > > > During today's RDO meeting, I had the idea of having a pre-baked image > with the basic setup (base CentOS + configured repos, maybe some > documentation included) in TryStack or a cloud provider that would like to > help us during the test day. Then, each tester could create a VM in that > environment and run their own test scenario. > > > > Thinking of it, it requires: > > > > - A prepared image (not a big deal, we could do it) > > - A public cloud with enough resources for the test days, and enough > security measures to prevent abuse > > - Anything else? > > > > Regards, > > Javier > > > >> Thanks. > >> > >> --Rich > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Rich Bowen - rbowen(a)redhat.com > >> RDO Community Liaison > >> http://rdoproject.org > >> @RDOCommunity > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> rdo-list mailing list > >> rdo-list(a)redhat.com > >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list > >> > >> To unsubscribe: rdo-list-unsubscribe(a)redhat.com > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > rdo-list mailing list > > rdo-list(a)redhat.com > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list > > > > To unsubscribe: rdo-list-unsubscribe(a)redhat.com > > _______________________________________________ > rdo-list mailing list > rdo-list(a)redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list > > To unsubscribe: rdo-list-unsubscribe(a)redhat.com > _______________________________________________ rdo-list mailing list rdo-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rdo-list To unsubscribe: rdo-list-unsubscribe(a)redhat.com