On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:14:31AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: [...] > > Okay, so I have tried to come up with a project description for [1]. > This is what I got so far (including "inline wiki markup"): > > <project> > Create Lintian reports frontend > =============================== > > The static package analysis tool, Lintian, is currently being run on > all packages in Debian. It has a tool called "harness" to publish the > results of its quality checks on lintian.debian.org. > > Currently, "harness" is an "internal" tool to generate these reports, > but we believe it would be useful to Debian as well as its many derivatives > to have a propper tool for generating these reports. > > The project will consist of two parts. Part 1 will be to create a > black box test suite to test the current harness tool. Part 2 will be > to rewrite "harness" into a proper tool. > > > * Confirmed Mentor: Niels Thykier > * How to contact the mentor: > * mail: [email protected], > * IRC nick: nthykier > * Co-mentors: Any takers? :) > * Deliverables of the project: > * New automated harness test-suite > * New harness frontend > * Desirable skills: > * Perl and POD > * docbook (for the "User Manual") > * Templates (such Text::Template or Template::Toolkit) > * Black box testing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-box_testing) > * Input sanitation. > * Possibly some Make or some shell code (sh or bash). > * Basic gnuplot knowledge (format of data files etc.) > * What the student will learn: > You will learn methods to reduce the workload when dealing massive > data sets (via incremental runs). You will learn how to do black > box testing on "non-trivial" black boxes. > </project> > > Review welcome, co-mentor welcome, suggestions very welcome and typo > fixes also welcome. >
Quite good. Please add it in the wiki! 2 small things: - add that the 2 parts are not supposed to take the same time. - it is not fully clear what kind of fronted you want (web?) Maybe the part about 'what the student will learn' part could be rewritten a bit more attractively. However I admit I don't have a better suggestion :D Ana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
