Re: [PATCH 0/4] WIP: git-remote-media wiki namespace support

From: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
Date: Oct 30, 2017, 12:20 UTC
Message-ID: <87po947roj.fsf@curie.anarc.at>
In-Reply-To: <q7h98tfszzp5.fsf@orange.lip.ens-lyon.fr>

On 2017-10-30 11:40:06, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> writes:
>
>> Obviously, doing unit tests against a full MediaWiki instance isn't
>> exactly trivial.
>
> Not trivial, but doable: there is all the infrastructure to do so in t/:
> install-wiki.sh to automatically install Mediawiki, and then a testsuite
> that interacts with it.
>
> This has been written under the assumption that the developer had a
> lighttpd instance running on localhost, but this can probably be adapted
> to run on Travis-CI (install lighttpd & Mediawiki in the install: part,
> and run the tests afterwards), so that anyone can run the tests by just
> submitting a pull-request to Git-Mediawiki.
>
> If you are to work more on Git-Mediawiki, don't underestimate the
> usefullness of the testsuite (for example, Git-Mediawiki was developped
> against a prehistoric version of Mediawiki, the testsuite can help
> ensuring it still works on the lastest version), nor the fun of playing
> with install scripts and CI systems ;-).

Hello!

Glad to hear from you. :)

So I actually tried install-wiki.sh, and it "failed to start lighttpd" and told me to see logs. I couldn't find them and stopped there...

It would be great to hook this up into CI somewhere, but I suspect it isn't considering how it doesn't actually work out of the box.

I'm hoping we can still do things and fix some things without going through that trouble, but I recognize it would be better to have unit tests operational.

Honestly, I would prefer just having this thing work and not have to work on it. :) I have lots of things on my plate and I'm just scratching an itch on this one - some backup script broke and I am trying to fix it. Once it works, my work is done, so unfortunately I cannot lead that project (but I'd be happy to help when I can of course).

A.

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