[Avocado-devel] [ANNOUNCEMENT] avocado-vt and virt-test merged

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

Hello everyone:

After a lot of work and many reviews later, we have virt-test and 
avocado-vt merged:

https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt/commit/20dd39ef00db712f78419f07b10b8f8edbd19942


What was done there?

* The virttest library calls to autotest APIs were converted to 
equivalent avocado API calls. There's still a tiny bit of autotest 
dependencies there to ensure correct test reporting
* The project was adapted to be installable system-wide, through the 
means of distro packages, such as RPM. By default, the user files are 
all created in ~/avocado/data/avocado-vt (the ~/avocado location is 
configurable).
* Avocado 0.27.0 and Avocado VT 0.27.0 were released, and both are 
available in our COPR repo so you can install them at your leisure.


What does this mean from now on?

It officially means that virt-test is now avocado-vt, and that new 
development should be done in the avocado-vt repo. virt-test's repo is 
supposed to be left where it is, but we'll disable commit access to it. 
Our current virt-test maintainers will be granted access to the 
avocado-vt's repo, and we'll work to help our contributors to rebase 
their PRs against avocado-vt.


Future

* The next step is to port our test providers to use avocado libraries, 
instead of the autotest ones, and move the repos location to avocado.
* avocado-vt and our test providers will be maintained normally from 
this point forward.
* Myself and my team will eventually move to focus on avocado-virt, the 
successor to avocado-vt. This is still ways to go before it can be 
considered ready for production (stability and feature set good enough 
for daily virt testing).
* Somewhere down the line, avocado-vt will be in maintenance mode, and 
avocado-virt should be the focus of development.

We ask our awesome contributor and maintainer's patience while we work 
out eventual issues that came with the transition. We'd love to hear 
your criticisms and bug reports, and will work as quickly as we can to 
solve these issues.


Notes

* Please add my COPR repo:

https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/lmr/Autotest/

Check there for install instructions. To test avocado-vt, you can 
follow:

http://avocado-vt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/GetStartedGuide.html

That should do the trick. Any problems, please report them on:

https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt/issues/new


Cheers!


Lucas