Re: pykickstart -- looking for unit test volunteers

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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 test coverage 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 4 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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