[pony-build] Next steps for Khushboo and Fatima

Fatima Cherkaoui fatizo89 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 24 21:33:04 PST 2010


Titus,

Thanks for the ideas, I'll be working on the HgClone branch support. I
remember that I've found some Hg-git plugin when i was trying to learn more
about mercurial, I don't know how it works exactly and how efficient it is
but I will check .It might be a good idea to use it.

Also, I'll try to write one more  build script for another package along the
way to gain more familiarity with the client side as you said.


Fatima

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:55 AM, C. Titus Brown <ctb at msu.edu> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> here are some ideas for more client-side work.
>
> First, you could write some more build-scripts for Python packages.
> Any one of the mock libraries (google 'python mock') would be great,
> for example.  Or you could ask on the 'testing-in-python' list to see
> who would like to volunteer their package.
>
> One package that I know some people would like tested is 'mechanize'.
>
> You could also test unittest2 under several different versions of Python.
>
> At some point this kind of project will get really boring, but if you want
> to continue gaining familiarity with pony-build and client-side stuff it
> should be pretty straightforward.
>
> --
>
> Second, one of you could implement branch support for HgClone.  Right
> now GitClone supports branches other than 'master', the default, while
> HgClone does not support branches other than 'default'.  I know beans
> about Mercurial, though, so this would be a reasonably independent
> research project ;).  To get started, here are some things you could do --
>
>  - look through the GitClone code in pony_client.py, specifically
>   'create_repository';
>
>  - look through the test code in client/test_client/test_git_client.py,
>   specifically the test_other_branch functions;
>
>  - sign up for bitbucket and fork my pony-build-hg-test repository, and
>   set it up with multiple branches;
>
>  - ...fix HgClone, add a test in test_hg_client.py, etc. etc. :)
>
> I can hook you up with one of the Mercurial maintainers quite easily if you
> need that level of expertise, BTW.  (You shouldn't but it's always nice to
> have it on tap!)
>
> --
>
> And, of course, there's a whole list of ideas on the wiki, but some of them
> are pretty big.
>
> --
>
> cheers,
> --titus
> --
> C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu
>
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Fatima-Zohra Cherkaoui

Activity Chair of Society of Women Engineers
Minnesota State University,Mankato
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