Great, thanks for the update!

On Wed, Apr 18, 2018, 10:23 AM Plamen Dimitrov <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 04/18/2018 12:02 AM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Plamen Dimitrov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> On 04/17/2018 06:19 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> >>> I suppose we can make autotest work with a dialect compatible with
> >>> python2.7 and python3.x. The problem however is the man power required
> >>> to go through the codebase and make the adjustments. Sure, I can make
> >>> a bunch of semi-automated changes to ease the fine grained work, but
> >>> testing and getting to a point where it's fully python3 compliant is
> >>> something that we don't have the resources to go through. Avocado took
> >>> Cleber, Lukas and Amador many release cycles to get it 100% done.
> >> Your second point about 100% compatibility is perhaps more important
> here.
> >> We are only making solid use of the autotest client code so
> compatibility
> >> with python 3.4 there suffices for us. Nevertheless, perhaps the branch
> >> can be of use to someone and the cost of maintenance should be low
> considering
> >> the inactive development at the present. I could also maintain the
> branch
> >> since we are interested in having the most recent master version at all
> times.
> > I'll be happy to take your branch and incorporate the changes to the
> > client, and perhaps make it to master even. With my limited bandwidth
> > I can look into unittests.
> >
> > Let's share this work. I also have no problem making you an autotest
> > contributor, which should let you push to branches.
>
> That's great news! Alright, I will update you once I have the changes
> available for additional review. I can also help out with unit tests and
> whatever is necessary but we can talk about this later on. If you think
> we have to move further communication to a different medium to discuss
> code- and maintenance-specific issues, I can do so as well.
>
> >> On 04/17/2018 06:26 PM, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> >>>> Though dated, just about all problems are known, and with it in
> >>>> maintenance-mode, it's a really stable testing framework (some warts
> >>>> included).
> >>> I'll take a look at some of the low hanging fruit if work allows me :)
> >> The current compatibility coverage I talk about above is sufficient to
> >> run the autotest client code and the virt-test (deprecated I know)
> modules
> >> without a problem but I can make an extra effort for the unit tests at
> >> least for the client code if we think about having an upstream branch
> >> for this. I hope the effort for it shouldn't be much larger.
> > Sure. I'm willing to help getting this done. Is the code also
> > compatible with py 2.7?
>
> Mostly yes, there are a few cases that I have to recheck to confirm.
> Since the original idea was to make the code compatible with 3.4 and
> offer it as an extra branch I didn't put much effort in backwards
> compatibility as well. This shouldn't be too hard to accomplish however,
> especially considering that the original code is python 2.7 compatible.
>
> Best,
> Plamen
>
>
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