Re: Announcement: on-demand openQA testing of dist-git pull requests

On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 17:15 -0500, Cristian Le via devel wrote:
> 
> On July 20, 2026 4:58:44 PM CDT, Adam Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2026-07-20 at 22:53 +0200, Cristian Le via devel wrote:
> > > In principle it could be added there, but:
> > > - displaying the results could be very nasty
> > > - it would be a bit wasteful to just wrap around another test suite
> > > - making it on-demand or filtered to specific packages is something we 
> > > haven't solved yet
> > > 
> > > As an alternative, I did consider if we could add it into 
> > > `packit-service` directly. The only blocker there I think is making it 
> > > trigger based on events (i.e. register a webhook on openQA to announce 
> > > when the state change) instead of having a process wait for the state to 
> > > change.
> > 
> > Note: it seems openQA has webhook support -
> > https://open.qa/docs/#setup-webhook-on-github - but this is the first
> > I've heard of it, and I've never used it.
> 
> It is also the opposite direction that we would need :). That is registering webhooks on github to trigger openqa, or in our case it would be registering a webhook on packit.
> 
> What we have with packit-testing-farm is that packit registers the webhook onto testing-farm so that testing-farm reports when it finishes. If we replace testing-farm with openqa we would need a webhook on openqa.
> 
> > Actual openQA scheduling in
> > Fedora always runs through
> > https://forge.fedoraproject.org/quality/fedora_openqa , which is built
> > around fedora-messaging. Trying to bypass it and use openQA webhooks
> > directly may not work properly as there's stuff the scheduler does
> > (test variables it sets, specifically) which the tests rely on.
> 
> And yeah the more I contemplate, the less of a bad idea it seems to me to just wrap it around a tmt test. It is not much different than the current implementation right?

I still don't understand the idea here, honestly, or the problem it's
trying to solve. Could someone explain it to me in small words? :D
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