Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[Avi Kivity]

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.

>   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.

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.

Are you using a standard json parser with your test script?  That's an 
additional validation.

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