QA

QA (Quality Assurance) is an official OpenStack project team.

Project Team Definition
Official Title: OpenStack Quality Assurance

PTL: Martin Kopec (kopecmartin)

Mission Statement: Develop, maintain, and initiate tools and plans to ensure the upstream stability and quality of OpenStack, and its release readiness at any point during the release cycle.

How to add new Project under QA program
Any new tool or project contributing towards the QA mission can be added under QA program. Below are the steps to do that.


 * Discuss the idea on #openstack-qa channel or openstack-discuss ML with [qa] tag in the subject line.


 * You need to propose a QA spec with all the details.
 * Example: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/656890/


 * Once Spec is merged then follow this process to add your project under QA via OpenStack Governance
 * Example: https://review.opendev.org/#/c/714478/ https://review.opendev.org/#/c/714480/

Feature Proposal & Design discussions
Any feature for any of the QA projects which need design discussions can be done via proposing the spec in qa-specs repository. Refer qa-specs-process for details.

Not all features need QA spec, to know that if your proposal needs QA spec please feel free to reach out to QA team in #openstack-qa IRC channel or openstack-discuss ML with [qa] tag in the subject line.

Releases Process
Along with the release of few projects as per the release team process, QA needs to do some extra steps during OpenStack release to set up the infra for in DevStack and Grenade. The complete process for project releases and QA responsibilities are documented here: QA/releases

Community

 * IRC Channel: #openstack-qa on OFTC
 * Email: openstack-discuss ML with [qa] tag in the subject line.

Meetings
The QA project team has a weekly IRC meeting, for more details see: Meetings/QATeamMeeting

Projects
The OpenStack QA project team is made of multiple projects which each run independently towards the goals of the project team. Each project maintains a separate core team based on who provides reviews in those projects.

For the purposes of voting on QA Project Team activities, anyone that's core on any of the projects gets a vote.

Devstack Core Team
As of 19Aug2014 'DevStack is part of the QA program.

Mission Statement
DevStack's mission is to provide and maintain tools used for the installation of the central OpenStack services from source (git repository master, or specific branches) suitable for development and operational testing. It also demonstrates and documents examples of configuring and running services as well as command line client usage.

Description
DevStack is an opinionated script to quickly create an OpenStack development environment. It can also be used to demonstrate starting/running OpenStack services and provide examples of using them from a command line. The example exercises were fleshed out beyond simple examples and became useful as a quick sanity check for the OpenStack installation. That sanity check became the basis for the Gerrit gate tests for all OpenStack checkins and continues in that role until Tempest takes over. These remain as the driving priorities for ongoing DevStack development.

DevStack is not and has never been intended to be a general OpenStack installer. It has evolved to support a large number of configuration options and alternative platforms and support services. However, that evolution has grown well beyond what was originally intended and unfortunately many of the configuration combinations are rarely, if ever, tested.

The simplest way to try DevStack is to run script https://github.com/makelinux/devstack-install-on-iso, which automatically installs Ubuntu in VM and DevStack without any manual configuration.

Grenade Core Team
For more information see: Grenade

Tempest-lib (RETIRED)
As of the 1.0.0 release tempest-lib as a separate repository and project is deprecated. The library now exists as part of the tempest project, all future development will occur there. To use the library for future releases update your imports from tempest_lib to tempest.lib, and add tempest>=10 to your project requirements

After several years of deprecation, this project got retired (April 6th 2022) after an agreement on Zed PTG:
 * https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/qa-zed-ptg

Project liaisons
To make cross project communication easier and fill gaps in domain expertise between projects and QA (bidirectionally) each project designates a liaison for handling integration issues. See QAProjectLiaisons.

History

 * Previous PTLs
 * Sean Dague (sdague), ..Havana and Icehouse release
 * Matthew Treinish (mtreinish): Juno, Kilo, Liberty and Mitaka releases
 * Ken'ichi Ohmichi (oomichi): Newton and Ocata releases
 * Andrea Frittoli (andreaf): Pike and Queens releases
 * Ghanshyam Mann (gmann): Rocky, Stein, Train and Ussuri release
 * Masayuki Igawa (masayukig): Victoria and Wallaby release
 * Martin Kopec (kopecmartin): Xena, Yoga, Zed and Antelope