Re: Regarding Mentors for GNOME-Continuous Project

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Shivani Poddar
<shivani poddar92 gmail com> wrote:
> Hey Colin, Sri,
>
> So, since we haven't been able to find a mentor yet, we are instead thinking
> of working on the Coala project [1] (as a part of QA this time), which so
> far has Lasse Schuirmann as one of the mentors. Basically this project is
> about getting continuous static code analysis to the developers. So it will
> consist out of two parts:

This looks good to me.  Let me ask though what is the output of this?
I don't mean the static analysis itself and getting it out there.  But
how will this be used by say by the release team or by module owners?
I'd like to see this move more front and center.  There has been a lot
of work in the QA team thus far but it hasn't quite gotten into the
mainstream work as I would like.

> 1. HTML output for coala - Which Lasse will me mentoring,
>
> 2. Integrating the output into GNOME Continuous - Continuous would need to
> execute coala for all projects providing a simple configuration. - This is
> the part which needs another mentor. (This essentially reduces the burden of
> having one person solely mentoring our continuous projects, unlike last
> year). [2]

Yes, definitely we need to have more mentors for GNOME Continuous.
I'm ramping up on yocto and woudl actually like to take a look at this
from a technical point of view.. so maybe next year I might volunteer
for this.

> I'd be happy to know what you guys think about it. And it would also be good
> to inculcate coala as a part of QA as and when its ready!

My two cents.

sri

> Regards,
>
> Shivani
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/coala-analyzer/coala
>
> [2] https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreach/SummerOfCode/2015/Ideas
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 11:15 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> > > Hi Shivani,
> > >
> > > Unfortunately I haven't found an available mentor for Continuous yet.
> > > I'd
> > > like to do it myself but unfortunately this is a 5-10% time project for
> > > me
> > > now that the underlying ostree component became more important for my
> > > employer.
> > >
> > > Is anyone else able to mentor?
> >
> > I would love to see this happen. I'd mentor if I had the technical depth.
> >
> > sri
> >
> > > On Tue, Mar 3, 2015, at 02:02 PM, Shivani Poddar wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > This mail is in regard to a project that I was a part of last year, and
> > > also
> > > helped in starting with the GNOME-QA. The focus of the project as listed
> > > earlier on was to "Enable GNOME to detect bugs early and improve the
> > > overall
> > > quality of applications. Several projects have started using dogtail
> > > scripts
> > > for tests, this idea will help new projects to adopt tests, improve them
> > > and
> > > make use of CI in GNOME".
> > >
> > > As a part of the project me and my co-intern worked to write tests for
> > > few
> > > of the GNOME Components, documenting the same in the QA Wiki [1]. I had
> > > also
> > > written a series of blogs about the same, because of which we saw
> > > significant applicants in the subsequent OPW rounds who were interested
> > > in
> > > taking up the project with ease.
> > >
> > > I would like to take this project further this year too (As a part of
> > > the
> > > Google Summer of code 2015 programme ) , and hope to exhaust the list of
> > > the
> > > components we need to cover as soon as possible. This would not only
> > > enable
> > > us to achieve automated testing, but also ensure a foundational testing
> > > framework in place for the developers to take forward on.
> > >
> > > Given, that the mentors for the project last year may not be able to
> > > mentor
> > > the same this time, I'd request for anyone interested to please suggest
> > > me
> > > about how this can be taken forward.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > > Shivani Poddar.
> > >
> > > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/MartinSimon/AppsPriorityList
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Shivani Poddar.