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[Georges Racinet <gracinet@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Joël,

On 11/30/2012 03:11 PM, Joël Grand-Guillaume wrote:
> You're more than welcome on board :) I'm happy to see your work on
> buildbot.
Thank you !

> This is something we actually discussing internally. You are probably
> aware of our OERPScenario project that bring a higher level on tests
> writing, allowing more functional people to express the tests as
> sentences. Our last work on it was to introduce a DSL that allow to
> write the tests as fast as possible, which is greatly appreciated as
> tests writing could be boring ! The thing is... it's in Ruby. The
> community is hard to move on this language, even if we love it...
That sounds compelling :-)

I've heard something about Cucumber based tests, is that the same thing
? I personnally have nothing against Ruby, except that I don't know
anything about it -- and don't know many people knowledgeable people
either. That'd be a no-issue for a general process launcher such as
buildbot, obviously.

>
> We are in the process of developing something here in Python ! Too
> early to talk about right now, but if we can work hands in hands on
> building a new buildbot with more test coverage on OpenERP, we're in !

Great, that'd be a pleasure.

Among more advanced features that we have right now, there's port
reservation for functional testing and attribution to buildslaves
filtered by capability, in case dependencies that can't be installed by
the build itself are needed (besides PostgreSQL, which is a bit
hardcoded in the system).
These are used at the moment in our buildbot instance for customer
projects only, IIRC, but that may change soon.
> Keep in touch on this topic. We'll probably contact you when ready on
> our side.
Don't hesitate to !



Regards,