Hi Fabrizio! On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 18:28 +0200, Fabrizio Milo wrote: > I am an Italian student who will participate in the euro-pypy-sprint.
cool. btw, did you already send a note to pypy-sprint at codespeak.net? please also state your timeframe and interests there (redundantly). > Looking for a good idea for a proposal, I saw > https://codespeak.net/issue/pypy-dev/ and many issues are interesting. > > like: > - https://codespeak.net/issue/pypy-dev/issue87 > - https://codespeak.net/issue/pypy-dev/issue111 > > ( or/ and ) > - https://codespeak.net/issue/pypy-dev/issue205 > - https://codespeak.net/issue/pypy-dev/issue224 > > The common subject here is "Improving test machinery". Yes, however, issue224 is more about adding tests for pypy stackless functionality (needed _this_ week :) while the other three are about actually improving the underlying test mechanisms mostly and thus belong to py.test/py library and not primarily to PyPy (although both are involved). > What do you think, can issue87 + issue111 be a good base for a proposal? > Is it required to produce some proof-of-concept? I'd suggest that you draft at least the contents of issue87, issue111 (and bits of/integration with issue205) into a proposal under your proposed headline working title. You may bounce it to me or to py-dev at codespeak.net (the py lib / py.test developer mailing list) if you have further questions. I guess the already known sub tasks would be "adding doctest support" and "refined error reporting" for py.test ensuring suitability for PyPy testing purposes (including integrating/helping with Issue205 - the pypy-c test runs). PyPy adds quite some custom functionality on top of py.test and it is sometimes a challenge to design things flexibly enough for it. > Are there other ideas in the community not listed in that page? Related to testing there is the issue of distributing tests across many machines (using py.execnet as an ad-hoc networking mechanism if you ask me). I see this as a rather separate topic from the other three, though. But there is nothing keeping you from adding another proposal after you finished your first :) > I am a good programmer ( I am a the end of a Computer Science Master > course in Rome ) > so don't let me escape from helping this wonderful project :) We will do our best :) Summary: it's best if you look around some more, ask questions and draft a proposal and let me or better py-dev review it. cheers, holger _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
