Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:04:57 +0200
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> 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.