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[Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Typing from so excuse the brevity

On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Jeffrey Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I was reading the other bits of this and while I don't quite
> understand it ( wouldn't it be great if "cough cough" I could be at
> one of your sprints to sync with dev plans "cough cough" especially in
> Taipei) ;-P


oh, this wasn't planned AFAIR

>
> Seriously, what I do at least somewhat grok so far is the changes to
> remove whitelists and define those in Units.

Whitelists are supported forever and you don't have to take any action.

It is only when you want to provide additional meta-data or acces new
features will you have to worry about those.

Internally we have a 1-to-1 mapping between those.

> I looked over Sylvain's MP to do that for the client cert whitelist.
> I took the liberty of going ahead and adding a story card to do
> likewise for server, so I thought I'd ask if that is something we
> should look at soon, or put off for a bit?

There is no rush. Have you read CEP-8 by any chance?

Thanks
ZK


> Cheers
> Jeff
>
> P.S. Really, the sidebar above was meant mostly as a joke, but I am
> interested in keeping up with the dev roadmap and progress for
> plainbox/checkbox since we are a direct consumer of / contributor to
> that effort.
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki
> <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hey. It's time for another CEP-8 update:
>>
>> - All of the parser related work is now finished. There's one unmerged
>> revision [1] but it was already past the initial review and I expect
>> it to land
>> - I've proposed a set of new APIs for working with data from test plan
>> units. I've specifically changed it from what I had earlier so that
>> working with multiple test plans is possible. This is the CDTS
>> use-case but I think it's okay to do it in general. The code is fairly
>> tested and readable [2] though I haven't tried using it for real
>> - I've started rebasing my earlier bulk and unitary method on top of
>> that, so that it is possible to work with multiple test plans.
>> - We now have test plans for CDTS and Certification [3], [4] that have
>> been reviewed by Ara and are both ready to land as soon as [2] lands.
>>
>> Next week I'll focus on gluing this to plainbox run so that we can
>> verify the test report format and contents and I'll work towards
>> making it possible to use in checkbox-gui. The one risk there is we
>> need to remember (know) which test plans were pre-selected but this
>> knowledge, AFAIK, so far only exists in checkbox-gui (ironically). It
>> can be re-constructed in plainbox so I'm not worried at all, it's just
>> a matter of getting that done.
>>
>> Thanks
>> ZK
>>
>> [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~zkrynicki/checkbox/cep-8/revision/3587
>> [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~zkrynicki/checkbox/cep-8/+merge/250288
>> [3]
https://code.launchpad.net/~sylvain-pineau/checkbox/14.04-client-testplan/+merge/249272
>> [4]
https://code.launchpad.net/~sylvain-pineau/cdts/cdts_testplans/+merge/250293
>>
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