[Gluster-devel] Python components and test coverage

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Nigel Babu <nigelb at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> We're currently in a transition to python3. Right now, there's a bug in one
> piece of this transition code. I saw Nithya run into this yesterday. The
> challenge here is, none of our testing for python2/python3 transition
> catches this bug. Both Pylint and the ast-based testing that Kaleb
> recommended does not catch this bug. The bug is trivial and would take 2
> mins to fix, the challenge is that until we exercise almost all of these
> code paths from both Python3 and Python2, we're not going to find out that
> there are subtle breakages like this.
>

Where is this great reveal - what is this above mentioned bug?

> As far as I know, the three pieces where we use Python are geo-rep,
> glusterfind, and libgfapi-python. My question:
> * Are there more places where we run python?
> * What sort of automated test coverage do we have for these components right
> now?
> * What can the CI team do to help identify problems? We have both Centos7
> and Fedora28 builders, so we can definitely help run tests specific to
> python.
>
> --
> nigelb
>
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