[Crackerjack-users 00071] Re: [RFC] [PROPOSAL:: LTP MINI SUMMIT] [OLS 2009] Should developers/stakeholders Meet ??

[Michael K. <mtk...@go...>]

Hi Subrata,

[CC+=Paul McKenney]

On 2/27/09, Subrata Modak <su...@li...> wrote:
> 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.

This is a little OT, but I wonder: might this not be better targeted
at the Plumbers Conference in Portland?  It's very much an ecosystem
topic, which I imagine would be a good fit (see
http://lwn.net/Articles/319215/ ).  Assuming it was a fit, then there
could actually be a microconf track devoted to the topic.  Since
Plumbers is explicitly a developer oriented conference, and is
doubling up with LinuxCon, it might be that more potential interested
parties are at that conference than OLS.  (Speaking personally at
least, if I manage to make it to just one of these, then Plumbers is
probably the more likely of the two.)

Cheers,

Michael