Folks: As I mentioned on: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/68#comment:88 , I've heard of several patches for Tahoe-LAFS that are complete enough to be useful but can't be committed to trunk because they don't have tests. This includes the multi-introducer patch by Faruq that killyourtv is talking about on that ticket. If I recall correctly Faruq wrote a basic test of subscribing to multiple introducers 9, but we don't have tests of other interesting cases, like what happens when one introducer is connected and you subscribe to it and hear about a server, and then that introducer goes offline and a different introducer appears and you connect to it and hear a different (newer) announcement about that server. Anyway, I was wondering how many people know of patches that you would like to see in Tahoe-LAFS trunk, and the reason it is not already committed to trunk is that it doesn't have tests, and you're not sure what sort of thing we expect in tests or how to write tests for Twisted code, etc. You can find such patches by querying the trac for the keyword 'test-needed': 2. If that describes you, let me know when you would be available for a tutorial session on IRC where we pick one such patch and walk through the process of writing tests for it. Brian Warner and David-Sarah Hopwood are two of the best engineers in the universe, and they are both (not coincidentally) two of the best unit-test-writers in the universe, so I would find a time when at least one and hopefully both of them would be willing to help. (I would definitely recommend hanging out with these folks on IRC for a couple of hours and working on a real patch for a real project. You could pay some famous person or company big bucks for software engineering training and not improve your skills as much.) This coming weekend, when Andrew Miller and Zancas and I will be hacking in person in Boulder, might be a good time to get on IRC and help us write unit tests. Regards, Zooko 9 https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/ticket68-multi-introducer/src... 2 https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/query?status=!closed&keywords=~test-needed&order=priority _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE