For your consideration.

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: James Laska jlaska@redhat.com Reply-To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases fedora-test-list@redhat.com To: fedora-test-list@redhat.com Subject: pykickstart -- looking for unit test volunteers Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:23:08 -0500

Greetings folks,

Chris Lumens, maintainer of pykickstart [1], is looking to expand the unit test coverage for the pykickstart package. For those who aren't familiar, pykickstart is used to read and write kickstart files by the anaconda installer, system-config-kickstart, livecd-tools, and snake. Anytime a pykickstart change is made, it can potentially disrupt kickstart processing for all of the supported distros (from RHEL3 to rawhide) or dependent tools.

In order to improve confidence in any code changes, we began building unit tests into pykickstart [2]. So far, the tests are proving worthwhile in shaking out several bugs. However, only 4 of 47 kickstart commands have unit test coverage.

We could use some help :)

I invite folks to come join us in #kickstart where we'll be hosting a unit test development session.

WHO: Anyone who ... * is interested in improving their python skills * wants to share their favorite kickstart files * has ideas on how to unit test WHEN: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 from 17:00-21:00 UTC (noon - 5pm EST) WHERE: irc://irc.freenode.net/kickstart WHY: Improving pykickstart makes installing Fedora more reliable ... and why do it alone when writing tests with friends is more fun!

Hope to see you there!

Thanks, James

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Pykickstart [2] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=pykickstart.git;a=commit;h=f4b5cf11aab1bf...