I had a similar experience to Chris's.  I gave the script my bitbucket

username, but on the first try it wanted to use my system username, which is

also not the same.  Just like for Chris, it got it right the second time.

As one of original nay-sayers on this, I have to say I liked everything

about how this worked.  I especially think the pasteboard is really great.

The one thing that wasn't very clear to me was that I had to do an 'hg push'

from within my pasteboard repo to get the page set up on bitbucket.  Could a

note of this be made in the script after this step is done?

Since I'm wrong so often, it's quite easy for me to admit that I was wrong

about this one.

Nice job, Matt.

Britton

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Chris Malone chris.m.malone@gmail.com>

wrote:

Hi Matt,

I pulled from your repo and ran the

yt bootstrap_dev

method.  Everything was going fine - it checked out yt-supplemental,

looked at my .hgrc and added my BB username, etc - until it wanted to set up

my pasteboard.  It seems like when it made the hgbb._bb_apicall, it used my

system user name, which is different from my BB username:

I am now going to create the repository:

     chrismalone.bitbucket.org

on BitBucket.org.  This will set up the domain

     http://chrismalone.bitbucket.org

which will point to the current contents of the repo.

Press enter to go on, Ctrl-C to exit.

using system user 'cmalone' as usernamehttp authorization required

realm: None

user: cmalone

password:

Obviously this failed; however, when I ran this a second time it picked up

my correct BB username:

I am now going to create the repository:

     chrismalone.bitbucket.org

on BitBucket.org.  This will set up the domain

     http://chrismalone.bitbucket.org

which will point to the current contents of the repo.

Press enter to go on, Ctrl-C to exit.

http authorization required

realm: None

user: ChrisMalone

password:

and then it worked fine.  I can now use the pasteboard facilities, which

are pretty cool!

I think for the bootstrap utility to be a bit more user-friendly, you

might want to add a bit more description about why the user cares about the

various components that are about to be installed  For example, the user

probably doesn't know that the yt-supplemental repo is where all the hgbb or

pasteboard stuff is contained or why they should want a BB account if they

don't have one already.  This might be too much information to have in the

bootstrap script itself, so perhaps provide a link to a page where these

things are mentioned.

Anyhow, aside from the above (minor) points, I really like the bootstrap

utility.  You've gone out of your way to make sure nothing was done without

the user's permission.

+1

Chris

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Matthew Turk matthewturk@gmail.com>

wrote:

Hi all,

Last week we had a conversation about a bootstrap script, where the

feel of the room was either lukewarm or positive.  Mostly people

seemed to think it was ill-motivated or would take too many liberties.

 Over the last week, in the evenings etc I've created a bootstrap

script for development, which overall I think is pretty

well-motivated.  The script accomplishes the following things, each of

which requests for confirmation before going on.  It uses a modified

iniparse library so that any modifications to any ini files are made

in a non-destructive manner.  It accomplishes these tasks:

1) Ensure username is set up in ~/.hgrc

2) Ensure that the cedit and hgbb are enabled

3) Asks for and if needed creates a username on BitBucket

4) Sets up hgbb

5) Creates a pasteboard repository

The diff is here:

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/compare/MatthewTurk/yt..default

You can pull from my repo:

hg pull https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt/

(But note the comment below about yt-supplemental)

There are a couple things in this:

 * I wrote up something called a "pasteboard" this last week for more

permanent mini-pastes of info.  This uses mercurial to create/destroy

items in it.  You can see some examples here:

http://matthewturk.bitbucket.org/

http://jsoishi.bitbucket.org/

http://samskillman.bitbucket.org/

This was born out of the SFLC thing that happened on the mailing list,

when Sam emailed his script.  I thought, wouldn't it be nice if we

were older, and we had a pasteboard that was persistent, with

descriptions, which we could programmatically upload/download from.

This adds the new commands:

yt pasteboard --desc="Something" some_file.py

yt pastegrab PASTE_ID USERNAME

This automatically tosses it up.  You get embed codes and some

highlights, but it's just easier to keep these things around than the

pastebin.

 * The idea of enabling hgbb, cedit and ensuring a bitbucket user is

because I am of the opinion we should make it easier to fork the

repository to make changes.  If those three are enabled, I believe a

command-line forking, editing of sources and so on, are all within our

reach.

 * This bootstrap script requires that the yt-supplemental repo be

checked out in ${YT_DEST}/src/ .  This repo is actually kind of cool,

in that it is a subrepo setup, and it pulls in a couple external

libraries that we can maintain.  Right now it grabs the docs, the

cookbook, and the extensions mentioned above.  This repo is now pulled

in the current install_script.sh.

Anyway, I am submitting this to the list to get some review.  There

may be errors, but I have tested it quite a bit.  It also informs the

user of what it's about to do and requires the user hit enter.  At one

point it even asks for a yes or no.

The reason I am interested in this is that I think the idea of

bootstrapping people into a development environment is, generally, a

good idea.  Particularly because some things -- like the pasteboard,

like forking, like contributing changes -- should be made really easy

and have the potential for a very high payoff.  I hope I've motivated

things a bit better.

I was hoping that before I merged it I could get someone else to read

it over, maybe a couple people even to test it, and to get a good feel

for whether this is worthwhile or whether I should pull these changes

and just ignore the idea.  What do people think?

Thanks,

Matt

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