[CentOS-devel] First round of RHEL programs announced

On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 5:32 PM redbaronbrowser
<redbaronbrowser at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> On Monday, February 1, 2021 3:55 PM, Neal Gompa <ngompa13 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 3:14 PM redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel
> > centos-devel at centos.org wrote:
> >
> > > On Sunday, January 31, 2021 7:14 AM, Peter Meier peter.meier at immerda.ch wrote:
> > >
> > > > > I can't use CentOS Stream - it is beta quality and has critical bugs.
> > > > > For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1913806
> > > > > This bug is critical for me, because I use systemd-nspawn containers
> > > > > for production. I will continue to use CentOS Stream in the future,
> > > > > but only as the beta-tester, to see what new will be in the future
> > > > > minor release of Oracle Linux / Alma Linux / Rocky Linux.
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > > And as a Stream user and contributor you can also add your use case to
> > > > t_functional which in the end becomes gating for Stream. So you avoid
> > > > future regression for your use case, although it is even not officially
> > > > supported.
> > >
> > > How? When?
> > > I still see no method to submit a pull request against the official CI/CD t_function sets. I also have not seen an ETA to being able to do so.
> > > Where is the example code of existing t_function sets?
> > > Where is the style/coding guide that must be followed to get new t_functions accept?
> >
> > The functional tests are stored here:https://git.centos.org/centos/t_functional
> >
> > You can make pull requests against it there.
>
> I was under the impression that the RHEL team was sitting on much more than this.  It seem like there was a good chance I would duplicating efforts on tests already done internally if I tried to contribute right now.
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> What exists looks like the level of testing I would expect of a *downstream* distribution.  The amount of commits over the last three months also seem like downstream distribution level.
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> If this is the complete offering from the RHEL team to make Stream an upstream usable by 95% or more of CentOS users then that is very discouraging.
>
> My personal perspective is we are having to recreate something to the level of Wikipedia from scratch in 11 months but at least most of the articles beginning with Z have been written.
>

The other stuff is in Fedora under the Fedora CI banner. That will
have much more of an impact when CentOS Stream 9 opens in three
months. Most of those tests are in the Fedora Git server now:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/projects/tests/%2A

Some extra tests are part of the package git repositories, like in the
case of sudo: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/sudo/blob/master/f/tests

But these things aren't available for CentOS Stream 8 and I'm not sure
they ever will be, since they're being rewritten more or less from
scratch and upstreamed into Fedora now for CentOS Stream 9.



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