For contributors ================ Source and tracking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The recipe is currently hosted as a launchpad project, under Bazaar version control: https://launchpad.net/anybox.recipe.openerp We follow the standard launchpad workflow (bugs, merge requests…). Code contributors are systematically added to the list of contributors at the end of the README, unless they explicitely wish not to (what Launchpad does is obvisouly out of our scope). There are currently no branch naming rules. Members of the "Anybox" team have push privileges on the main branches. Using a development version ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To use a local version of the recipe, you may use the ``develop`` general buildout option:: [buildout] develop = /path/to/anybox.recipe.openerp To track the latest version of a ``bzr`` branch of the recipe, we find the `gp.vcsdevelop `_ extension simple and useful. Here's an example (excerpt from ``buildot/recipe-trunk.cfg``):: [buildout] extensions = gp.vcsdevelop vcs-extend-develop = bzr+http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~anybox/anybox.recipe.openerp/trunk#egg=anybox.recipe.openerp vcs-update = True .. note:: Actually some parts of the recipe are aware of the possible use of ``gp.vcsdevelop`` for python dependencies, and special care of it is taken in the freeze and extract features. This is known to work even for ``zc.buildout`` itself. Development setup ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We recommend "developping" the source code in a virtualenv, together with ``bzr``. For instance:: virtualenv recipe-env recipe-env/bin/pip install bzr recipe-env/bin/bzr branch lp:anybox.recipe.openerp cd anybox.recipe.openerp python setup.py develop Coding style ~~~~~~~~~~~~ The recipe follows the same strong code development coding principles as many other projects: * Style enforcement : we follow the PEP8 guidelines * Static analysis with `flake8 `_ (combines conveniently `pep8 `_ and `pyflakes `_). * Unit tests : we try and test as much as possible. It is hard to achieve a real 100% with a tool that calls so many external processes, but this is mitigated by our :ref:`continuous integration ` practice of doing real OpenERP installations with the latest revision of the recipe. Launching static analysis and unit tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Install ``nose``, ``flake8`` and, optionally, ``coverage``:: recipe-env/bin/pip install nose coverage flake8==2.0 \ pep8==1.4.6 mccabe==0.2.1 pyflakes==0.7.3 .. note:: we've had problems lately with discrepancies in ``pep8`` versions, that's why versions of ``flake8`` and its dependencies are fixed above. In case of doubt, check what the buildbot is actually running. Run ``flake8`` and the tests (in this example, after virtualenv activation):: cd anybox.recipe.openerp flake8 anybox && nosetests anybox --with-doctest There is also this convenience to run the tests and output a coverage report:: source ./test-cover .. _integration tests: Integration tests ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a special category of tests: those that need a real OpenERP instance, built with the recipe, to run. They are located within the ``tests_with_openerp`` subdirectory and need to be launched with a launcher script constructed by the recipe. For example, create a testing buildout like this:: [openerp] # version as you wish eggs = nose openerp_scripts nosetests command-line-options = -d Then run ``bin/buildout``, create a database and initialize it. From the buildout directory:: createdb test-recipe bin/start_openerp -d test-recipe -i base --stop-after-init You can then run the tests:: bin/nosetests_openerp -d test-recipe -- /path/to/recipe/branch/tests_with_openerp Currently, these tests are all about the ``Session`` objects, used in scripts. .. note:: you may use a different version of the recipe to build that testing buildout. This is anyway what happens if you build with your development version, and hack some changes afterwards. Using a very different version of the recipe could give funky results, but you're supposed to know what you're doing at this point. .. _continuous_integration: Continuous integration ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Basic builds ------------ Upon each push on the main branches, Anybox' public buildbot awakes to check the coding style, run the tests and build this documentation. You may check the status there: * `trunk builder `_ * `stable builder `_ Actual runs ----------- Furthermore, this buildbot instance runs `anybox.buildbot.openerp `_, a buildbot configurator for OpenERP installations based on the recipe. This is used in turn to run high-level integration tests, having the latest bzr version of the recipe actually install several combinations of OpenObject server and addons, and run their unit tests. The configuration is stored in the ``buildbot`` subdirectory of the recipe trunk branch. It is made of a high level configuration file (``MANIFEST.cfg``) and buildout configuration files. This buildbot instance actually aggregates several such configurations. The corresponding builders are those whose name starts with ``recipe-`` or ``stable-recipe-`` in the `builders list `_. .. note:: the `integration tests`_ mentioned above are executed in particular during this process, currently in the ``recipe-7.0-postgresql-9.2`` builder. Some builds may appear to be broken because of tests failures been pushed by upstream in OpenERP itself or in the tested addons, but it's easy to check whether this is due to a recipe failure or not. .. note:: Anybox hardware resources are limited; contributing buildslaves would be greatly appreciated.