On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 12:05 -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> These patches are my implementation (hacks ;-)) to allow fetching tests
> over the git protocol.
> 
> I know the main use of autotest is to have tests pushed from autosrv.  But
> I was trying to develop a model where one could host some hacked up 
> tests/control
> file on a local site and pass the url to an eager tester to try.
> 
> The eager tester could quickly fetch the control file and run the tests and 
> then
> post his results to the developer as feedback.

Good stuff Don! Give me some time to review this, but this will come up
very handy for separating tests from the core autotest code.

> I tried to keep the hacks minimal.  But even then supporting my idea was 
> painful.
> Oddly I feel burnt out from dealing with all the packaging fallout from these
> changes (despite the last patch being so small..).
> 
> Don Zickus (5):
>   base_package:  Re-organize for new fetcher
>   base_package: add new fetcher git
>   base_package: support directory heirarchy for tests
>   cmdparser: add fetch command
>   [RFC] various hacks to workaround packaging issues
> 
>  client/cmdparser.py            |   61 +++++++++++++-
>  client/job.py                  |    5 +-
>  client/shared/base_job.py      |    2 +-
>  client/shared/base_packages.py |  173 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  client/shared/test.py          |    2 +-
>  client/tools/html_report.py    |    3 +
>  global_config.ini              |    6 +-
>  7 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
> 


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