[Beaker-devel] Docs/overview for using autotest in Beaker?

Cleber Rosa crosa at redhat.com
Thu Dec 5 18:38:58 UTC 2013


On 11/05/2013 11:11 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 01:00:15AM -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
>> On 11/05/2013 12:00 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>> On 11/05/2013 07:51 AM, Don Zickus wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:33:33PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>>> Ping :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Even a cursory blog post somewhere (or a reply to this email!)
>>>>> explaining to people how to *experiment* with this would be helpful. At
>>>>> the moment I'm having to point people at the merged pull request to say
>>>>> "Yes, in theory, you can use the upcoming version of autotest as a
>>>>> Beaker test harness", but I have zero resources to give them on how to
>>>>> actually run it (because I don't actually know myself).
>>>> So playing with things a little more..
>>>>
>>>>> 1. How do you get the experimental version of autotest to play with? Is
>>>>> there a pre-built RPM somewhere that people can use, or do they have to
>>>>> build their own?
>>>> Unfortunately, I see autotest-0.15 has not been packaged with Fedora 20
>>>> for some reason.
>>>>
>>>> Lucas,
>>>>
>>>> Why is Fedora using a version of autotest from a year ago instead of
>>>> something far more recent????
>> Because it is a big PITA to get Fedora to approve new package reviewers.
>>
>> It is been months that cleber is dilligently going from review to
>> review to finally become one, but it usually takes 20 days every
>> iteration. At this staggering rate, he'll become a Fedora package
>> mantainer by 2016. Seriously, I've been thinking "ok, now the
>> package maintainership thing will be sorted out any minute now" for
>> the past 4 months.
>>
>> Now once he becomes a package maintainer, up to date packages will
>> start to show up.
> Odd.  Maybe that is for new packages.  For existing packages it has taken
> me less than a week to get approved to become a maintainer (with commit
> privileges) for a package.
>
> Cleber, can you point me to some of the hold-ups on getting you approved?
> Being in Westford, I might be able to poke people directly to move things
> along quicker.  20 days seems awfully long and would be a big turn-off to
> get new Fedora contributors/maintainers (something I assumed Fedora wanted
> to avoid).

Don,

Now would be a good time to get some help here.

Please check the package review BZ at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985967

Thanks.

>
> Cheers,
> Don
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