[Avocado-devel] Avocado release 0.30.0: Jimmy's Hall

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues]

I'm happy to help, always. Congrats on the new release, I'll be around
sending my patches and reviewing :)

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 3:20 PM Cleber Rosa <crosa at redhat.com> wrote:

> Avocado release 0.30.0: Jimmy's Hall
> ====================================
>
> Hello! Avocado reaches the end of Sprint 30, and with it, we have a new
> release available! This version brings stability fixes and improvements to
> both Avocado and Avocado-vt.
>
> As software doesn't spring out of life itself, we'd like to acknowledge
> the major contributions by Lucas (AKA lmr) since the dawn of time for
> Avocado (and earlier projects like Autotest and virt-test). Although the
> Avocado team at Red Hat was hit by some changes, we're already extremely
> happy to see that this major contributor (and good friend) has not gone too
> far.
>
> Now back to the more informational part of the release notes. For Avocado
> the main changes are:
>
> * New RPM repository location, check the docs[1] for instructions on how
> to install the latest releases
> * Makefile rules for building RPMs are now based on mock, to ensure sound
> dependencies
> * Packaged versions are now available for Fedora 22, newly released Fedora
> 23, EL6 and EL7
> * The software manager utility library now supports DNF
> * The avocado test runner now supports a dry run mode, which allows users
> to check how a job would be executed, including tests that would be found
> and parameters that would be passed to it. This is currently complementary
> to the avocado list command.
> * The avocado test runner now supports running simple tests with
> parameters. This may come in handy for simple use cases when Avocado will
> wrap a test suite, but the test suite needs some command line arguments.
>
> Avocado-vt also received many bugfixes[3]. Please refer to the changelog
> for more information.
>
> Install avocado
> ---------------
>
> Instructions are available in our documentation on how to install either
> with packages or from source[1].
>
> Happy hacking and testing!
>
> ---
>
> [1]
> http://avocado-framework.readthedocs.org/en/0.30.0/GetStartedGuide.html
> [2] https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado/compare/0.29.0...0.30.0
> [3]
> https://github.com/avocado-framework/avocado-vt/compare/0.29.0...0.30.0
>
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