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Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0
From: |
Luiz Capitulino |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0 |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:43:21 -0300 |
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:04:57 +0200
Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/01/2009 11:13 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> >> If we're going to support the protocol for 0.12, I'd like to most of the
> >> code merged by the end of October.
> >>
> > Four weeks.. Not so much time, but let's try.
> >
> > There are two major issues that may delay QMP.
> >
> > Firstly, we are still on the infrastructure/design phase, which
> > is natural to take time. Maybe when handlers start getting converted
> > en masse things will be faster.
> >
>
> I sure hope so. Maybe someone can pitch in if not.
I've written a TODO list if someone is willing to help:
http://tinyurl.com/ya7l6bo
> > Secondly: testing. I have a very ugly python script to test the
> > already converted handlers. The problem is not only the ugliness,
> > the right way to do this would be to use kvm-autotest. So, I was
> > planning to take a detailed look at it and perhaps start writing
> > tests for QMP right when each handler is converted. Right Thing,
> > but takes time.
> >
>
> I think this could be done by having autotest use two monitors, one with
> the machine protocol and one with the human protocol, trying first the
> machine protocol and falling back if the command is not supported.
Yes, sounds a good idea.
> Hopefully we can get the autotest people to work on it so we parallelize
> development. They'll also give user-oriented feedback which can be
> valuable.
I will talk to them about that.
> Are you using a standard json parser with your test script? That's an
> additional validation.
I'm using Python's json module, but I could run one of the checkers
listed in the json's page for each test, before the Python's module
kicks in.
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Laurent Vivier, 2009/10/02
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, TAKEDA, toshiya, 2009/10/03
Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Jens Osterkamp, 2009/10/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0, Anthony Liguori, 2009/10/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0, Anthony Liguori, 2009/10/14
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0, Jamie Lokier, 2009/10/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Release plan for 0.12.0, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2009/10/14