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[Daniel Manrique <daniel.manrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki
<zygmunt.krynicki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 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.
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>
>
>>>
>>> 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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