[libvirt] [libvirt-test-API] Plans for code update

[Ruifeng Bian]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Kletzander" <mkletzan at redhat.com>
> To: "Ruifeng Bian" <rbian at redhat.com>
> Cc: libvir-list at redhat.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 8:57:26 PM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt] [libvirt-test-API] Plans for code update
> 
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 02:17:22AM -0400, Ruifeng Bian wrote:
> >
> >I am not sure how many of you keep an eye on this project.
> 
> From what I know, not many.  I believe it is used in some CI
> _somewhere_... by _someone_.
> 
> >The project is for testing libvirt-python APIs, but many test cases are
> >not fully implemented until now.
> 
> And many of them are broken by design.  I remember fixing one just out
> of sheer curiosity and it was hard not to go down the rabbit hole and
> get stuck in there.
> 
> >We want to keep this project updated in the future, the following aspects
> >will be considered to update the code:
> >1. Code style - Use inspekt to check code style.
> >2. Pythonizing the code - Replace all shell scripts with python.
> >3. Bug fixing - Some code bugs need to be fixed.
> >4. New features - Add more API test cases.
> >
> 
> Good luck with that, it looks like the code haven't gotten a good scrub
> in years.  Are you planning to use it somewhere?  Will there be anything
> left after cleanups? =)

Actually we always use this project in our team. But the code hasn't synchronized
to upstream for a long time. We have 3 guys working on this project now. And we
Plan to synchronize our code with upstream recently.

> 
> >Any feedback or suggestion is welcome. Let's work together to contribute
> >to this project.
> >
> 
> One suggestion could be too have a look at avocado-vt (what used to be
> autotest's virt-test) for that is being still actively developed.
> Although I have no idea what's your intention, so I might be just
> generating noise, in which case I apologise.

Yes, we also have the thought of integrating this project with avocado-vt. It will
require much work to do. We will take this as our second step.

Thanks a lot.

> 
> Have a nice day,
> Martin
> 
> >Thanks,
> >Ruifeng Bian
> >
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