On Tue, 2017-07-11 at 14:46 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:17:02AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Also I have a request to make a drop-in-files thing which I hope will > > > be easier for packagers than dealing with wiki categories, which seems > > > to be a barrier. > > > > Erf. At some point I have to push back against all the wiki hate. The > > wiki basically *is* a bunch of text files, after all. I'm frankly > > refusing to believe that typing this into a test case page: > > > > [[Category:Package_foobar_test_cases]] > > > > is too difficult for people to handle, and that some random text file > > somewhere (yet *another* process to document and for people to forget > > about keeping working) would be better. > > I'll put the relative dearth of test cases using the wiki model as > exhibit A. And, the category thing isn't _really_ that simple: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_package_test_plan_creation#Simple_.28required.29_categorization > is *definitely* the level to which someone who isn't working with > mediawiki categories and probably our SOP for this in general might > just say... never mind. And I'm not even talking about the "Advanced > (optional) categorization". I suppose I could just put a tl;dr infobox at the top, as the executive summary *is* pretty simple. > > > More wiki categories? :) > > > > Well, no, that wouldn't work, as we don't have one wiki page per > > criterion. I did sort of intend that the names of the anchor links in > > the criteria pages (each criterion has an anchor link) should never > > change and can reliably be used to refer to 'the same criterion' (even > > if we change the wording of the criterion), but we've never really made > > that an official thing, it's mostly just in my head so far. tflink has > > long had ideas about somehow handling the release criteria through a > > different system (possibly blockerbugs), but never had time for it, I > > don't think. > > blockerbugs as in living in (or at least exposed through) that app, or > actually in bugzilla as trees of dependencies? As in the app. > But anyway, the anchor links are a *little* fragile, but maybe could > work. But why _not_ have one page per criterion? (Transcluded in one > big page, if that's important for convenience?) It's more work than writing one page, I guess? I don't think anyone ever made a specific decision to do it that way, it's just how it naturally happened. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
