Hi all. I'm telling Francesco that we've given this LEP time enough to cook, and encouraging him to proceed. Thanks!
Gary On 05/31/2012 02:32 PM, Gary Poster wrote: > On 05/21/2012 03:09 PM, Francesco Banconi wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've written a LEP draft about Launchpad setup scripts improvement. >> The Yellow squad, as you already know, is working on the parallel tests >> project, which uses https://launchpad.net/lpsetup as part of its process >> to create the required testing environment. >> >> We are improving lpsetup so that it can be used to set up Launchpad >> development instances, optionally inside LXC containers, and that's the >> reason of this LEP. >> >> If you are interested please glance at >> https://dev.launchpad.net/LEP/LaunchpadSetupScripts >> >> Any feedback and suggestions are appreciated. > > Robert gave us a lot of time and feedback for this. We revised the LEP > significantly based on his feedback--particularly the "Must"s and so on. > > We put his thoughts, which we have largely incorporated; and some > implementation notes on separate pages, so the "Thoughts?" section is > largely blank once again. Thoughts are again welcome, though we will > soon (end of week, say?) regard this as having received enough attention > for us to proceed. > > We diverged from Robert's suggestions in a few points that we know of: > > * We still plan to have lpsetup and lp-dev-utils separate. Rationale > is listed in the LEP, but for convenience: > * lp-dev-utils is more for lxc container and lpsetup is more for host. > * Moving lpsetup to lp-dev-utils is a non-trivial task because it > means packaging lp-dev-utils for lucid and precise. > * Because we don't believe it is the right thing and this is a slack > time task, we don't intend to do it. > * Robert encouraged us to not support non-LXC environments, for a > tighter focus. A non-LXC environment is very valuable (to us!) when you > want to determine whether a problem is specific to LXC, so we kept it. > He already approved this, I think. > * Robert encouraged us to only support lightweight checkouts, and not > branches (for colocated use or otherwise), again for a tighter focus. > We felt we mostly had the code for branches anyway, and we knew some > people (Aaron, for instance) liked and used colocated branches, so we > wanted to keep them. That said, this is perhaps a maintenance burden, > and perhaps it would be appropriate to push back on us here, so we'll > certainly listen. > > I think we're largely on the same page otherwise. > > Francesco was about to be able to officially release, but with these > changes it will probably be an additional few weeks of slack time before > we see a release. If you want to follow along, the code is in > https://launchpad.net/lpsetup and you can get the package in the Yellow > squad's PPA (https://code.launchpad.net/~yellow/+archive/ppa). > > Gary > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev > Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
