Re: Request to discuss with you about OpenQA

Hello Vladislav SOKOLOV and others, On 23/09/2021 13.30, Dan Čermák wrote:

Hi Vladislav,

SOKOLOV Vladislav writes:

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Hello,

I'm contacting you on behalf of EDF (Electricité De France), a French state-owned energy company, currently the world's 2nd largest producer of electricity.

For our scientific computing needs, we internally develop and maintain Scibian (https://scibian.org/), a Linux distribution based on Debian. We recently started investigating OpenQA to automate our testing, and although the project is still at the "Proof of Concept" stage, we are very enthusiastic about taking it further and would love to discuss it with you.

Great to hear that you've found openQA useful and are using it for your distribution!

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As we get deeper into OpenQA, we have some questions to which we could not find the answers in your documentation or videos. We would be very happy to talk with someone from your team to ask these questions and learn more about your long experience working with OpenQA and maintaining it.

If we commit to using OpenQA, we are also interested in contributing to the project. We already added some features for our usage : - support of qemu 6.1 by adding backing file format when images are created. We saw that you nearly finished to work on it too - support of french keyboard layout with a french OS guest. Even with "VNCKB=fr" option and without our fix, send_key works badly for many keys (maybe we missed something ?)

I would suggest that you simply open a pull request on github: https://github.com/os-autoinst/os-autoinst

and then someone will take a look and work with you to get the feature merged. It's open source, so you don't have to ask permission for contributing after all ;-)

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We would be glad to hear back from you. A video call sounds great to us, but other means of communication are fine.

very happy to hear from you.

I would suggest that you join the Matrix room: https://matrix.to/#/#openqa:opensuse.org (it is also bridged to the openSUSE discord server) to ask specific questions there and if you feel like a video call is something worth pursuing, then schedule that in the chat room directly.

We commonly meet in the open video chat room https://meet.opensuse.org/suse_qa_tools How about next Monday, 2021-09-27, 0900-1000 CEST (0700Z) ? In any case I will reserve this time slot so I will be there. Let's see if someone joins :)

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If sending this email to opensuse-factory@opensuse.org was inappropriate, please excuse us. If it is the case, can you give us a better address ?

openQA does not have a separate mailinglist, so this is ok (imho). I would however suggest that you subscribe to the mailing list, as your messages will otherwise be stuck in the moderation queue, until a human can take a look whether it's not spam.

This mailing list is completely fine. There are also other ways for contacting us or the openQA community, please see https://open.qa/contact/ Dan already mentioned the main public chat room tha you can use. Have fun, Oliver Kurz Product Owner for the SUSE QE Tools team