Proposal: Xen Test Days

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xen.org>]

Hi everybody,

at OSCON I had a couple of discussions regarding Fedora-like Xen Test 
Days. It may be a little bit late for this release putting all the 
documentation together (i.e. a TODO list of what we want to community 
and distros which consume Xen) to test to pull this off for this release 
cycle.

But I wanted to raise this as possibility and maybe something to build 
into future release cycles.  If I look at 
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_4.2 there is fairly little (or in fact 
almost nothing) we have in terms of how new functionality would be 
tested. My gut feel is that the biggest benefit of a Xen test Day for 
4.2 may be in testing XL. There were some improvements last Monday, but 
I am not sure this is enough.

If I look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days they have spent 
quite a bit of effort on this, and it would probably take one person a 
week or two full-time to pull this together. Also see, 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:Current

I just wanted to put this out there to see whether we should try for 
this release cycle and gather views. It would require a volunteer to 
step up. If the view is that this is not doable for 4.2, this may be a 
good thing to either try for patch releases as well as maybe for Xen 4.3

Regards
Lars