[Crackerjack-devel] [RFC] [PROPOSAL:: LTP MINI SUMMIT] [OLS 2009] Should developers/stakeholders Meet ??

[Subrata M. <su...@li...>]

Hello All,

The Linux Test project has been in existence for many years, and, the
benefits of this Project has been well established. However, due to
several reasons the developers/stakeholders of this project has never
meet face to face. Hence, i would like to propose a Mini Summit for LTP
on the sidelines of the OLS 2009, scheduled to be held at Montreal,
Canada, July 13th-17th, 2009 (http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2009/).

The proposal for mini summit has been accepted in principle by the OLS
committee. Since, there are no specific summit/meet/conference for LTP
developers, this is a very good opportunity for LTP developers to meet
side-by-side the OLS, as many of them will be coming to attend/present
in the OLS. We can meet and discuss various issues relating to LTP in
the same meet, some of them being:

i) Presentation/discussion by developers/testers/users on various issues
on test infrastructure/environment/test cases. Here we plan to abreast
ourselves with several of such issues, and, somebody can take the
responsibility for those line item(s),
ii) Presentation/discussion by developers/testers/users on what they
contributed to LTP, and, what they plan to do in near/far future,
iii) Presentation/discussion by Maintainer of the present situation of
LTP, and, what he might expect from the community to take this forward,
iv) Presentation/discussion by Maintainer on how to increase LTP
penetration in other areas (archs, etc) of Linux testing, like the
Z-linux, embedded hardware, etc,
v) How best to leverage on Project Collaboration like Crackerjack to LTP
porting of tests,
vi) Other proposals(if any) from the community is also to be discussed.

I have discussed this with Andrew J Hutton of OLS committee. He has
agreed in principle to lend us a room/accessories to conduct the Mini
Summit, provided there are enough attendance of a minimum of 10 people.

If all/some of you agree and feel that it would be great for all of us
to meet, and we have the enough nos. i can talk to Andrew to confirm a
berth for us.

Please feel free to propose new agenda and comment on the proposed
agenda.

Regards--
Subrata