On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Nis Martensen <nis.marten...@web.de> wrote: > Hey Sandro! > > On 18-02-2018 05:49, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Hey Nis! >> >>> The reportbug source code has some issues that make it hard to review: >> >> >> thanks for working on this! even if i dont want to mess with your >> plans, let me tell you that if you really want to work on this "qa" >> kind-of activity for reportbug, i think the area that will give the >> biggest impact is improvements to the test suite: currently part of >> the code is not covered well (or at all) and i did a poor job at >> adding tests for bugs that were filed and fixed; also i've always >> wished to be able to test the interactive part in reportbug (maybe >> mocking the input method). > > Extending the test suite is actually the goal here. It's just hard to > add tests for functions of which you don't know what they're supposed to > do exactly. So reading the code and taking notes is the first step.
oh great to hear we're one the same page on that! :) > >>> - Most functions in reportbug/*.py do not have a docstring, or only a very >>> brief one. Some functions still have many parameters, and some return >>> quite >>> complex objects. >>> - module-internal functions are not prefixed with an underscore, so it is >>> hard >>> to tell which functions are meant for external use. >> >> can we do something now, though? as of now they are all public >> functions, removing them by making them private can break someone's >> code (ok ok it's rather remote possibility but still) > > You are of course correct. `apt-cache rdepends python3-reportbug` only > lists reportbug, though. I also spent some time searching with > codesearch.debian.net some weeks ago, and couldn't find anything else. > I believe it is quite unlikely that there are any users outside debian. i was more thinking of tools external to debian, like scripts from operators using those functions > The current patch set includes making functions private. Let me know if > you don't want this part. are the changes to make the private in separate commits or among the docstrings changes? the former would help in review the change >>> I'm slowly working on patches. >> >> i would suggest to submit of your early patches soon, so that i can >> have a look and eventually comment earlier > > It is quite a lot already. Will send later today. sorry about that :( > Are you planning to move reportbug to salsa in the future? It might > make this kind of review easier. i just did and migrated reportbug to https://salsa.debian.org/reportbug-team/reportbug - wanna try the merge request thing ah! :) -- Sandro "morph" Tosi My website: http://sandrotosi.me/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list Reportbug-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint