Re: xenbits "official" repo for XTF (was Re: [PATCH 0/2] xtf: add launcher (+1 bugfix)

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

> Looking at the above, it occurs to me that, this whole area seems to be a
> little inconsistent anyway and could do with a little house-keeping. We
> have
> - osstest.git
> - there also is osstest/*.git which seems to be odd and seems to have been
> inactive for a while (not very clear to me what these do)
> - and we have old and inactive xentesttools/*.git

They are not inactive. I have some patches for it and we are using
it (Boris and me).

> - and we are adding a new repo for XTF
> 
> 
> Maybe, moving everything test related under testing/* or test/* would be
> sensible, but that would cause some disruption (not sure how bad that
> would be). It would address A, B and D. It wouldn't make C much worse than
> now.

I don't mind the xentesttools going under a 'test' directory. 

> 
> We already follow a similar pattern for out-of-tree via pvdrivers/*
> 
> It does in fact occur to me that some of the older inactive repos should
> be archived somehow: candidates seem to be kemari/*, xentesttools/*,
> xenclient/*, xcp/*, ... pollute the namespace. If we are concerned about
> the namespace, we should address this at some point. There are also some
> inactive top level git repos such as linux-2.5-xen.git and quite a few
> inactive people repos.

The Linux ones, the linux-pvops.git could go.

> 
> >Lars, can you please advise what process we need to use to come to
> >closure on this decision ?
> 

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