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[Ara Pulido <ara.pulido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25/09/14 19:45, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
> [snip]
> 19:40 <@zyga> the biggest thing that didn't go in (and wont anytime
> soon) is manager.runner patchset
> 19:40 <@zyga> where you could just manager.runner.run(job, context, ui)
> 19:41 <@zyga> but that will go away along with the runner actually
> 19:41 <@zyga> runner will be decomposed to a shell runner + logger and
> a new class that interprets a job.plugin and converts that to a
> sequence of commands
> 19:41 <@zyga> (not shell commands)
> 19:41 <@zyga> (ui commands)
> 19:42 <@zyga> I realized that until we can kill checkbox-gui none of
> this can result in removing code :/
> 19:42 <@zyga> so I want to reach parity ASAP and kill checkbox-gui
> 19:42 <@zyga> one big problem to face is checkbox-gui requirements,
> aka 14.10+ :/
> 19:43 <@zyga> we will have to spend some time to get the app to work with 14.04
> 19:43 <@zyga> and put 12.04 SDK apps on life support (unless it can
> run the same as 14.04 but I haven't checked)
> 
> So there you have it. It is in my interest to totally kill off
> checkbox-gui and the resulting piles of code we cannot change without
> changing C++ and dbus. To make that happen we need to have
> checkbox-touch (including pyotherside) that works on 14.04, and if
> possible on 12.04).
> 
> I'll handle pyotherside. If you love hacking after hours, I'd love to
> know if we can get checkbox-touch to work on 12.04 + SDK ppa and
> vanilla 14.04.

Having checkbox-touch working on 12.04 and 14.04 won't be enough,
checkbox-gui has some features that are not in checkbox-touch (checking
logs during the run, rerun tests, submit to C3, ...)

I don't think that our priorities should be adding those missing
features to checkbox-touch, but having a good set of tests for phones
and tablets and a minimum working test runner for phone and tablets.

We are very close to having that minimum working test runner, and that's
fantastic, so we should be focusing next in having a good set of tests.
The test runner is just a tool, what it really provides value are the
tests themselves.

We could discuss whether we should fork checkbox-touch from the main
branch (or the other way round) if we want to have a repository that is
cleaner and shows what we really want to achieve going forward, but I
don't think that working in adding more and more features to the touch
interface for checkbox would help us achieve our goals.

Thanks,
Ara.

> 
> Thanks
> ZK
>