Still working on getting the setup, but 9elements reports: "We have it running as CI System attached to a Github repo and do build and boot testing on Qemu und real hardware with it."
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 1:39 AM Patrick Georgi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am Sa., 16. Okt. 2021 um 02:40 Uhr schrieb ron minnich <[email protected]>: >> >> Contest is easy to set up, easy to run, it's >> getting contributors. I understand it's a commitment of a day or so to >> figure out, but it's worth it in our experience. It's just not that >> hard. >> >> I believe starting down the python path is a bad start, and I'd rather >> not make it. > > It is, but that's the code proposed on the repo. > I asked you about using Contest in a setting that comes without client/server > architecture, SQL database and a dedicated system under test. Any news on > that end? > >> I realize "it's only 160 lines", now; but that's how these things >> always start. They don't end well. > > It's not a license for adding more of the same. > > I consider it: > 1. A signal that we care for testing our tools (as in: we like contributions > that improve our test coverage). > 2. A signal of encouragement towards Ricardo who haplessly ran into the trap > of coreboot discouraging (ahem) python (we should document that!) while > trying to improve the project's general posture. > > As soon as you bring up an alternative path that's acceptable to the project > at large, Ricardo offered to rewrite this specific test in whatever we'll use > officially (I suppose there's a caveat of it being "within reason": don't get > out your brainf*ck-based e2e testing framework!), and I hereby offer to be > the rewriter-of-last-resort in case Ricardo is gone by then. > > As is, Content looks like a solution for a _different_ problem. As soon as we > can clear up that confusion, I'm all for using it, and the faster we get that > done, the faster this python code is removed again. > > Therefore I guess one could say that I also consider this change (and my > proposal of merging it): > > 3. A rather blunt tool to get you to resolve the open questions regarding > Contest ;-) > > > Patrick _______________________________________________ coreboot mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
