I'm game to help (to be honest I would LOVE to work for Red Hat), I will try to squeeze out some time. That and I have been slowly trying to resurrect cft, (that thing is awesome).
I will take another look at the bugtracker and try to dive in! -Tom Hatch On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/24/2009 12:00 PM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: > > Its on the list, problem is the list is very long :) > > > Indeed. This is a key issue. As other projects come up, my time to > devote to Cobbler is not 100%. > > As I'm mostly one person, I don't scale -- Lately there has been good > interest in feature patches, but not a lot of interest in bugfix > patches. We've got to fix this and make this better. This is very > important for the project. > > Thus, in order to get 2.0 pushed out from testing to stable more > quickly, we need to grow the community more and get folks to be able to > pitch in and fix things. This was part of the idea around "Learn to > Hack on Cobbler Week", which, admittedly, didn't get many bites. > > Help in submitting patches is the best thing we can do to get Cobbler > 2.0 ready-to-roll into production sooner -- short term. Long term, > there is more we can do. While 2.0 was a refactoring/core-cleanup > release, 2.2 will probably have a lot of focus on test improvements > (they can also be merged to and be run against 2.0). > > Another thing we can do is establish a much more comprehensive > functional test suite -- which, I think, for me, is the #1 feature I > want to get going for 2.2. This would involve end-to-end imports, > creation of VMs (image and kickstart based), validation of DHCP and DNS > modules, etc, etc. This could be a *quite* sizable effort but could > help us a good bit. On the downside, it would require that new > features coming in also came with tests as a criteria for patch > acceptance. (Web application testing, due to time constraints, I > expect would be deferred for later -- but if someone wants to try to get > something together using selenium (or equivalent) that could be very > interesting. > > Thoughts and volunteers? > > --Michael > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
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