Request for xen guest for a Testopia proof-of-concept

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 13:42 -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> Testopia (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/testopia/) is an extension of
> Bugzilla (http://www.bugzilla.org/) that adds test-case management,
> allowing test plans and result reporting to be integrated into the
> Bugzilla web UI.
> 
> I'm looking to set up a proof of concept deployment of Testopia for
> Fedora.  The idea is to experiment with managing installation testing
> via this, to see if it works better than using the wiki.  There are
> various XML-RPC hooks it supports that might help with automating some
> of our testing.
> 
> It patches the core of Bugzilla, and hence has to be built as part of
> the core package, rather than a separate srpm.  I've submitted a
> testopia package for review as bug 450013.
> 
> We wouldn't be using the bug-tracking capabilities of it; instead treat
> the bz nature of it as simply the libraries/modules that form the
> run-time environment.
> 
> For now I'd like a virtual machine as a playground for setting this up.
> RHEL5.2 OS, 1 gig memory, and 10 gig of disk space would probably be
> adequate for now.
> 
> I have no idea what the resource constraints are like for Fedora, so if
> this is unreasonable then please say so. 
> 

I've agreed to sponsor these folks in this request for resources.  I'll
get a ticket filed today and start work.  Mike McGrath has granted me
the right to use publictest2 once I've confirmed that all users of this
test instance are done with it.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
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