[katello-devel] Experience contributing a new feature as a user

[Ivan Nečas]

On 08/15/2012 08:40 AM, Ivan Nečas wrote:
> On 08/15/2012 08:39 AM, Ivan Nečas wrote:
>> On 08/15/2012 06:13 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:27:52AM -0400, Og Maciel wrote:
>>>> My point for this email is not to blame anyone but to ask the 
>>>> following question: how can we make it easier for people to 
>>>> contribute to katello without having to jump through endless hoops???
>>> You either need all developer dependencies to be delivered as
>>> precompiled RPMs, or you need to undergo this compilation process
>>> every time you install those gems. This is how rubygems work - they are
>>> basically source packages which is fine for pure-ruby packages, but for
>>> gems with extensions its more tough.
>>>
>> The problem with apipie not being installed right with bundle install 
>> is our gem repo preparation script is failing for some time 
>> (hopefully will be fixed soon, nothing else is holding us back to 
>> have it there).
>>
>> If you're lucky enough, you use some yum-backed distro and you can 
>> enjoy all the advantages it has: yum install rubygem-redcarpet 
>> (available in Fedora and EPEL), yum install rubygem-apipie-rails (in 
>> our nightly repo [1] since tonight). bundle install: problem solved :)
One more thing I can do is to publish a script that I use to turn a 
machine configured with katello-configure into a development machine. I 
use puppet manifests for that, but it will be more effective to publish 
it as simple bash script. The pull-request should appear soon.

-- Ivan
>>
>> One improvement I could see is to distribute all the development 
>> packages (including test frameworks etc) as RPMs and provide 
>> katello-devel package, that would install all the dependencies so 
>> that the developer is ready to go with one command. That would also 
>> allow us to get rid of our rubygem repo and make the "source 
>> :rubygems" optional.
>>
>> All we can do for other rubygem users is to document it somewhere. Oh 
>> wait, we did [2] :). Ruby developers are quite used to have the 
>> ruby-devel (and other development packages) installed on the machine.
>>
>> [1] - 
>> http://koji-katello.lab.eng.brq.redhat.com/releases/yum/nightly/RHEL/6Server/x86_64/
> and the external link to ^^^ is 
> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/katello/releases/yum/nightly/RHEL/6Server/x86_64/
>> [2] - 
>> https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/AdvancedInstallation#SetUpDevelopmentusingGit 
>>
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-- 
Ivan