From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
libvir-list@redhat.com, "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"Willian Rampazzo" <willianr@redhat.com>,
"Niek Linnenbank" <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com>,
qemu-arm@nongnu.org, "Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>,
"Michael Rolnik" <mrolnik@gmail.com>,
"John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tests/acceptance: introduce new check-avocado tartget
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 10:49:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3aae05e7-823e-2761-0442-7fd92f3931c5@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYjsvY3W27a1jUCD@redhat.com>
On 11/8/21 10:24, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 08:59:51AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 05/11/2021 16.53, Willian Rampazzo wrote:
>>> This introduces a new `make` target, `check-avocado`, and adds a
>>> deprecation message about the `check-acceptance` target. This is
>>> a preparation for renaming the `tests/acceptance` folder to
>>> `tests/avocado`.
>>>
>>> The plan is to remove the call to the `check-avocado` target one
>>> or two months after the release and leave the warning to force
>>> people to move to the new `check-avocado` target.
>>>
>>> Later, the `check-acceptance` target can be removed. The intent
>>> is to avoid a direct impact during the current soft freeze.
>>>
>>> Suggested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Willian Rampazzo <willianr@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>>> tests/Makefile.include | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>>> 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
>>> index 56f9ad15ab..7bf8da8325 100644
>>> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
>>> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
>>> @@ -410,3 +410,16 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
>>> The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
>>> As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
>>> +
>>> +Testing
>>> +-------
>>> +
>>> +Renaming of the acceptance folder to avocado
>>> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>>> +
>>> +The ``tests/acceptance`` folder was never used to store acceptance tests
>>> +in terms of software engineering. This naming can confuse developers
>>> +adding tests using the Avocado Framework to this folder. The folder
>>> +name change to ``tests/avocado`` also changed the ``make`` target from
>>> +``check-acceptance`` to ``check-avocado``. In this case, the use of the
>>> +``check-acceptance`` target is deprecated.
>>
>> Not sure whether we need to document this in deprecated.rst, too, since
>> we're normally only listing the things here that affect the users of the
>> qemu binaries, not the people who want to recompile and run the tests...
>> OTOH, I don't mind too much either if we list it here... Anybody else got an
>> opinion on this?
>
> Deprecations are only things for user facing changes in the apps.
OK.
> For build system changes we don't bother with any deprecation cycle.
> Just make the change immediately and document it in the release notes.
Understood.
Willian, do you mind updating the release notes?
https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.2#Testing_and_CI
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-08 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-05 15:53 [PATCH v2 0/2] tests/acceptance: rename tests acceptance to tests avocado Willian Rampazzo
2021-11-05 15:53 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] tests/acceptance: introduce new check-avocado tartget Willian Rampazzo
2021-11-05 16:19 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-08 7:59 ` Thomas Huth
2021-11-08 8:13 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-11-08 9:24 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-11-08 9:49 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2021-11-08 11:57 ` Willian Rampazzo
2021-11-05 15:53 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] tests/acceptance: rename tests acceptance to tests avocado Willian Rampazzo
2021-11-08 7:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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