[pony-build] TODO items for the next week

[C. Titus Brown]

Hi all,

I'm looking forward to meeting the UCOSP students next week in Toronto!  It
looks to me like almost all of you are on this list, so I won't bother sending
out individual e-mails.

Whether or not you're coming to Toronto, please go look at

   http://wiki.github.com/ctb/pony-build/gettingstarted

and do all of the Basic Steps.

Since we only have a week to go before Toronto, I'd like to ask you to try
only a few small tasks:

 - check out a copy of pony-build and run the client/build-example
   script; verify that your build entry shows up here,

	http://lyorn.idyll.org/ctb/pb-dev/p/build-example/

 - go choose a small package (Python or other) and adapt one of the client/
   build- scripts to build (and run the tests for) this package.

   HINT: You can get a list of Python packages at PyPI [0], and the
   existing build-figleaf script is pretty generic.

   HINT 2: Choose a package that doesn't depend on much else.

   HINT 3: the 'coverage', 'nose', and most of the mock testing packages
    (search for 'mock' at PyPI) should be straightforward.

   HINT 4: You already have to install Quixote and Jinja2 for pony-build, so
    you could also use those.

 - send the build results to my server and send me the URL of the result
   along with the script.

optional but highly recommended to at least try:

 - add, commit, and upload the new client script to your forked pony-build on
   github.

 - install jinja2 and quixote as per the README, run the server, and
   have the client/build-example send results to your own server.

Remember, the only sin is not to try :).

cheers,
--titus
-- 
C. Titus Brown, ctb at msu.edu

[0] http://pypi.python.org/pypi