On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Michael Terry <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello! I'm at UDS this week and Canonical has been talking about new > acceptance criteria for package updates landing in main and testing > requirements for projects they write. This is going to affect the > Ubuntu packaging work I do on duplicity (as well as the work I do on > deja-dup). > Make sure you go to dinner with someone that knows their way around! ;) > Basically the idea is that there has to be a body of automated > integration tests before I can accept a new release into Ubuntu. And > likely also involve a staging PPA for wider testing. > Very good idea. > I can also spend more time working on upstream duplicity tests and > Canonical has offered to run a Jenkins [1] instance, which can run a > test suite after every commit to duplicity trunk. > > A) Ken, would you be interested in a Jenkins instance which would > notify this mailing list on trunk test failures? > Yes, please! B) Would it be OK if I send emails to duplicity-talk when I have > prepared a new update for a development release of Ubuntu asking for > testing? This may just involve the same current PPA but in the > current development release pocket (i.e. right now, the 'precise' > pocket). Such a request could be folded into an email announcing the > new release's availability in the PPA's stable release pockets too > (which I don't do now, but should). > Fantastic! > C) I would be interested to start working on expanding the duplicity > test suite and making more of the current tests require no > configuration. I'm assuming such changes would be welcome? > Yes, very welcome! Plus convert the shells to Python, etc. > D) I'm going to get more serious about setting up that daily build PPA. > Fantastic news all around. [1] http://jenkins-ci.org/ This looks interesting. We could really use something like this. ...Ken
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