On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 07:17:14PM +0100, Gabriele Cerami wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer > > On 22 May, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > It's been discussed a couple of times, but with no strong > > conclusion. The biggest issue with email is that mailing lists are hard > > to administer. > > > > Github PRs would be OK. > > > > I do not like Gerrit: https://benpfaff.org/writings/gerrit.html > > Fair enough, it was an interesting read. > I hope you look again at newer gerrit releases from time to time. Some > of your objections have been fixed. (gerrithub.io should have an updated > version) > > > The OVN branching model is documented, see > > Documentation/internals/release-process.rst. There is a lot of other > > information on contributions in and under that directory. > > Missed that. After learning the architecture I dived into the code. > I have a lot to read yet. > > > In the medium to long term I'd like to switch away from C for this > > program. String processing in C is silly. I've been prototyping a > > switch to the declarative programming language DDlog. The new version > > of the code that I've written for that is also more modular. > > Understood, I see some threads now regarding this. > I heard about DDlog in some videos around, but I completely > misunderstood its purpose in OVN. I thought for some reason it was > used to increase performances in data transfers between DB and > controllers. > > Thanks for the explanation and the pointer. > Adding to the queue of things to read. > > > If this is a naming thing, that is, you think the tests shouldn't be > > called "unit tests", I will personally not argue. > > > > If you want to propose more granular tests, that's great. I welcome > > more tests. > > I find the definition of unit tests usually very loose. I would probably > call these component tests, but the naming is secondary, I wanted to > understand more the granularity, and the possibility to use mocks to > skip parts of the code to focus on the tested function. > > Even if I was an expert on testing though, It's too soon for me to > suggest anything. > I'm mostly gathering information, and prefer to have a more complete > view before making any move. > > Thanks for the reply, I have more directions now.
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