Bug#1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2024-04-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 09-04-2024 6:23 p.m., Paride Legovini wrote: * runner/autopkgtest talks to the backend with a simple text protocol. While this enables users to add another backend without changes to the src:autopkgtest code trivially, the drawback of that is loosing all nuance of what really is going on

Bug#1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2024-04-14 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 09-04-2024 6:23 p.m., Paride Legovini wrote: PS: would it be worth it to enable dashboards for autopkgtest on salsa to manage this project? I assume issues on salsa are disabled on purpose to avoid bug reports in multiple places. Could we make adding issues project members only? I'm in

Bug#1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2024-04-09 Thread Paride Legovini
Hi Paul, On 2024-04-07 16:42, Paul Gevers wrote: > The following issues have come up several times over the years. I > propose to discuss them in one place (this bug report) to define the > solution strategy. I haven't gone through all the details myself, so > I might be thinking in the wrong

Bug#1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2024-04-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 07-04-2024 7:20 p.m., Christian Kastner wrote: I'm not a maintainer but I use autopkgtest a lot. I hope it's OK if I contribute input. Yes, absolutely. Comments from all people that want to contribute constructively are welcome. Even more so from users and contributors. Paul

Bug#1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2024-04-07 Thread Christian Kastner
Hi Paul, On 2024-04-07 16:42, Paul Gevers wrote: > The following issues have come up several times over the years. I > propose to discuss them in one place (this bug report) to define the > solution strategy. I haven't gone through all the details myself, so I > might be thinking in the wrong

Bug#1068588: redesign of how autopkgtest talks to the testbed

2024-04-07 Thread Paul Gevers
Package: autopkgtest Severity: wishlist Hi all, The following issues have come up several times over the years. I propose to discuss them in one place (this bug report) to define the solution strategy. I haven't gone through all the details myself, so I might be thinking in the wrong