pykickstart -- looking for unit test volunteers
James Laska
jlaska at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 17:44:42 UTC 2009
Greetings,
We'll be getting started shortly, come join the fun in #kickstart ...
Thanks,
James
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:23 -0500, James Laska wrote:
> Greetings folks,
>
> Chris Lumens, maintainer of pykickstart [1], is looking to expand the
> unit tests for the pykickstart package. For those who aren't familiar,
> pykickstart is used to read and write kickstart files by the anaconda
> installer, system-config-kickstart, livecd-tools, and snake. Anytime a
> pykickstart change is made, it can potentially disrupt kickstart
> processing for all of the supported distros (from RHEL3 to rawhide) or
> dependent tools.
>
> In order to improve confidence in any code changes, we began building
> unit tests into pykickstart [2]. So far, the tests are proving
> worthwhile in shaking out several bugs. However, only 2 of 47 kickstart
> commands have unit test coverage.
>
> We could use some help :)
>
> I invite folks to come join us in #kickstart where we'll be hosting a
> unit test development session.
>
> WHO: Anyone who ...
> * is interested in improving their python skills
> * wants to share their favorite kickstart files
> * has ideas on how to unit test
> WHEN: Wednesday, January 28, 2009
> from 17:00-21:00 UTC (noon - 5pm EST)
> WHERE: irc://irc.freenode.net/kickstart
> WHY: Improving pykickstart makes installing Fedora more
> reliable ... and why do it alone when writing tests
> with friends is more fun!
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pykickstart
> [2]
> http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=pykickstart.git;a=commit;h=f4b5cf11aab1bf7acbc4113865a51cc718ba0935
>
>
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