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[Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Jeffrey Lane <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki
> <zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Typing from so excuse the brevity
>>
>> On Thursday, February 19, 2015, Jeffrey Lane <jeffrey.lane@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>> 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.
>
> Yeah, it's the new features that prompted me to ask... I noticed
> Sylvain's unit file has tests marked as Blocker or non-blocker and I'm
> curious about that feature.
>
> In my mind, I've always thought it would be great to mark a test as
> "blocker" or "non-blocker" and then have the results give me a PASS if
> all Blocker tests pass, FAIL if any Blocker test fails, and then a
> "PASS - Check Results" or something like that if all Blockers pass but
> some Non-Blockers failed.
>
> So maybe I'm just projecting my own desires on Sylvain's branch.  If
> not, then Awesome! and GET OUT OF MY MIND!
>
>>
>>> 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?
>
> I may have glanced over it a while back, perhaps.. link?


boo, I cannot copy paste from the phone. Google for CEP-8.rst please. It is
in lp:checkbox in cep/ directory.


>>
>> 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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