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Deprecation of STI tests

This is a proposed Change for Fedora Linux.
This document represents a proposed Change. As part of the Changes process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.

Summary

Display a deprecation warning for Fedora 41 for all STI tests. Deprecate execution of STI tests in all CI pipelines for Fedora 42.

• CI for bodhi updates
• CI for dist-git pull requests

All users of STI tests will need to migrate to the new tmt format.

Owner

• Name: Miroslav Vadkerti, Cristian Le,
• Email: mvadkert@redhat.com, fedora@lecris.me

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 41
• Last updated: 2025-01-02
• [Announced]
• [<will be assigned by the Wrangler> Discussion thread]
• FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
• Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>

Detailed Description

For some time CI testing in Fedora can be defined using two different formats:

• Standard Test Interface (STI)
• Test Management Tool (tmt)

As tmt has matured to a state it can fully replace the STI functionality, we are proposing to drop STI as the supported format. STI format is not actively developed and is causing us a maintenance burden. Moreover, tmt provides a more streamlined experience to discover, execute and debug tests thanks to its tmt command line tool.

Benefit to Fedora

Having two formats for executing the tests is an unnecessary duplication and causes confusion for the Fedora maintainers and community.

STI tests have limited functionality and are harder to develop and maintain, when compared to tmt.

Scope

• Proposal owners: Miroslav Vadkerti, Cristian Le

• Other developers:

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

This is a change to the development experience, no changes to Fedora distribution are made.

How To Test

To find out if you package has STI tests, check if tests/tests*.yml files are present in your dist-git repository.

Follow the sti to tmt migration guide.

Submit the changes to your dist-git repository.

User Experience

For Fedora 41 users will be presented with a deprecation warning in the Testing Farm artifacts.

For Fedora 42 users who have setup gating on STI tests will be obligated to migrate to be able to push their packages to stable repositories.

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: (What to do? Who will do it?) N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
• Blocks release? N/A (not a System Wide Change), Yes/No

Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)