[Python-Dev] Automated testing of patches from bugs.python.org

[Berker Peksağ]

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Kushal Das <kushaldas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the help of CentOS project I am happy to announce an automated
> system [1] to test patches from bugs.python.org. This can be fully automated
> to test the patches whenever someone uploads a patch in the roundup, but
> for now it accepts IRC commands on #python-dev channel. I worked on a
> docker based prototype during sprints in PyCon.
>
> How to use it?
> ---------------
>
> 1. Join #python-dev on irc.freenode.net.
> 2. Ask for test privilege  from any one of kushal,Taggnostr,bitdancer
> 3. They will issue a simple command. #add: YOUR_NICK_NAME
> 4. You can then test by issuing the following command in the channel:
>
>     #test: BUGNUMBER
>     like #test: 21271
>
> This will do the following:
> Start a new job on ci.centos.org, announce it on the channel, and
> announce the result also.

Hi Kushal,

Looks great, thanks! :)

Two comments:

* It would be good to have a pypatcher repository at hg.python.org (at
least a mirror), so we can work on it together without dealing with
"add me to the repo" messages on GitHub.
* Do you have a roadmap or a TODO list? For example, I think
downloading a tarball of the default branch every time (or is it
cached?) would be a little bit slow. Do you have a plan to make the
workflow Mercurial based (e.g. "hg pull -u, hg imp --no-c
issueXXXX.diff, compile" instead of "wget tarball, extract it, apply
patch, compile")?

> I will be working on a minimal lint for patches, and include it
> the workflow.

Could you give more details about the linter? Can we use
Tools/scripts/patchcheck.py?

Thanks!

--Berker