Need doc on how to enable tempest in DevStack

[Mike Spreitzer]

In the cases of Heat and Ceilometer (for example, http://devstack.org/lib/ceilometer.html) the DevStack doc about that project starts with a remark about how to configure DevStack to include that project. The same should be done for tempest. Apparently it is not as trivial as adding "tempest" to the enabled services. I am told I should also declare

HEAT_FETCHED_TEST_IMAGE=Fedora-i386-20-20131211.1-sda

[Talusani Mani Shanker (shanker-mani0)]

I would like to fix this bug. This is my first attempt for bug fixing. Can anyone help me how to fix this bug.

[Mike Spreitzer (mike-spreitzer)]

The first step of a documentation fix is to know the facts you propose to
write about. Have you got that down? I was told of an additional thing
to write, but do not understand what it means and why it must be written.
That should be included in the documentation.

If you follow the "contribute" link near the bottom of openstack.org you
will get to a page with useful pointers about contributing in general and
doc fixing in particular.

[Mike Spreitzer (mike-spreitzer)]

I may have put that a bit too strongly (my frustrations with Neutron are bleeding through). Even if you only add a remark like "here is a magic incantation that you might need" it would be an improvement. It would be even better to explain it. You can often get good information on IRC at fortuitous times of day. In this case I would suggest #openstack-qa and #openstack-infra.

[Talusani Mani Shanker (shanker-mani0)]

https://review.openstack.org/#/c/85616/

[Mike Spreitzer (mike-spreitzer)]

Actually, it now appears to me that it is not always necessary to add that line. I have experimentally verified this. It would be best to get an explanation from an expert about when that line is needed.

[Lee Yarwood (lyarwood)]

AFAICT Tempest is currently enabled by default and setting HEAT_FETCHED_TEST_IMAGE explicitly in localrc is not required. Testing locally it appears the only recommended localrc change is to disable API rate limiting with 'API_RATE_LIMIT=False'. I'll document this in a change now so we can close this out.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/107630

[Robbie Harwood (rharwood)]

.../docs/source/configuration.html already mentions that tempest needs `API_RATE_LIMIT=False`, so I think there is no need for additional documentation.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Lee Yarwood (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/107630
Reason: Fair comments, closing this out. Thanks all.