On Nov 2, 2008, at 22:19 , Noah Slater wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 04:14:17PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
I got a bug submission system running for Futon. Basically the idea
is that
people can write tests directly in Futon and then submit them to an
Appengine
web service. There's also a listing/search mechanism in Futon for
submitted
bugs.
Paul, outstanding work, I just tried it and it is mighty cool. I can
see how we gather a significant amount of test-cases using this.
There are a number of issues with this that I can see:
Noah, thanks for your input, I think these are valid concernes.
* This should really just use JIRA, which is our single location for
issue
tracking and reporting.
This is not for bug reporting but easy creation, sharing and
validation of test cases. I believe Paul is working on JIRA
integration that can be used once a test-case is "validated" by one of
the developers.
Test-cases are not tied to bugs or issues. If we have a way of easily
collecting loads of them, way to go! :D
* We don't want to tie our selves to an external service such, which
may go
away or which would force us to import and integrate with the
Apache infrastructure.
I think the backend is easily portable. For a proof of concept the
Google AppEngine is not a bad choice. Running this on top of CouchDB
would be an ideal dogfood thing. I hope we can integrate this with the
the ASF infrastructure.
* Any code submissions must be vetted for legal issues, JIRA already
provides a
permanent way to do and record this information.
Small patches do not have to be vetted. Code that goes into the
repository will need to be processed by a developer anyway. This is,
again, just for easily creating test-cases.
Cheers
Jan
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