On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 11:00:08PM -0700, Garrett Holmstrom wrote: > On 4/6/2011 11:11, Jeffrey Ness wrote: > > As I'm new to the community and RPM Package Review (and development), I > > figured a tool to assist with reviews would be a nice time saver. > > > > With that said I have a simple Python tool (still in early beta stages) > > which does just that. > > > > Keeping with the concept of sharing, I wanted to hand this tool out to the > > community and get any feedback from y'all: > > > > https://github.com/jness/spec_checks > > > > This tool uses the "Package Review Guidelines" written by Tom 'spot' > > Callaway: > > > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ReviewGuidelines > > I was expecting some sort of automated spec file / RPM checker, but it > turned out to essentially be a checklist program. I guess I should have > read the readme first. ;) > > On that note, one thing that could improve it would be making it capable > of automatically providing relevant information to the reviewer. > Printing source file checksums, for instance, would be a small, but > relatively easy thing of this nature to do. > > The review guidelines include the packaging guidelines by reference. > Your program does not. Though the packaging guidelines tend to leave > more up to reviewers' discretion, they might still be worth including, > at least in part. > > If it helps, several people posted wiki pages with the lists of things > that they look for when reviewing packages. AFAIK mine is up to date > and fairly exhaustive, if you're interested in a starting point: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Gholms/review_template > > I hope at least some of that feedback helps. Anything that makes > reviewing easier is a good thing, so thanks for sharing your work! > Ah -- if this is a checklist app, you could also look at:
http://svn.berlios.de/viewvc/qa-assistant/trunk/ I wrote that for doing reviews of fedora.us packages as my first serious pygtk program. It has a generic way of defining the checklist via an xml file and I had started to include ways to load code to automate tests about the time that I stopped working on it. -Toshio
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