And now it's on. 

 4 to be Gold partner.

2 to be Silver partner.

and 1 to be the ready partner.

and now its gonna be happen again as discussed already by the community as well as ODOO (The programs were abandoned for cost reasons and lack of interest (Less than 15% of the partners passed the certification) while they had no clear benefits on the training sales.) 

You can find some interesting discussion from this thread https://www.odoo.com/groups/community-59/community-11509631

And the reason posted in OCA's blog from here https://odoo-community.org/blog/news-1/post/oca-meeting-openerp-sa-7