On 05/12/14 14:12, Karanbir Singh wrote: > For the actual test runs, we wont really have persistence in test > environments. We will be automating the provisioning and deployment, so > that the machines can be reinstalled after the test run is done and > reused for other purposes. And we encourage folks to test on baremetal > since that means tests should complete faster, and unless it really is a > virtualisation technology being tested, you are more likely to be closer > in terms of user-facing-test-cases. one of the key considerations is artifact collection and export : when a ci run completes, some projects will have rpms or binaries etc ( the artifacts ), that they might want to retain or have available publicly. Our present setup model ( ref: http://wiki.centos.org/QaWiki/PubHardware ) does not cater for this. Anyone have thoughts / comments around what this process might look like ? -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc