[Crackerjack-users 00074] Re: [RFC] [PROPOSAL:: LTP MINI SUMMIT] [OLS 2009] Should developers/stakeholders Meet ??

[Greg KH <gr...@su...>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:03:30PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 27 February 2009 21:05:32 Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > On 2/27/09, Subrata Modak <su...@li...> wrote:
> > > 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.)
> 
> i'm not so sure ... i see LTP targeting more the low level libc/kernel 
> interface.  the plumbers sit on top of that and LTP doesnt really target the 
> plumbing layer ...

Um, the "plumbers" include the libc / kernel developers, so I think that
is a direct target audience :)

thanks,

greg k-h