Getting rid of the ATF tools

[Garrett Cooper]

1. File PRs.
2. Pester committers nicely who are interested in helping you out.
And since it's so close to release, CC releng.
    As long as the ports are in place, I don't mind the direction you're pushing for, because I understand what you're trying to achieve.
Cheers,
-Garrett

> On Oct 8, 2013, at 19:39, Julio Merino <julio at meroh.net> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> [ Reviving this old thread, so abusing top-posting... ]
> 
> FreeBSD 10 is around the corner. If nothing changes, this will be the
> first release with ATF built-in, which is great but... I'd still
> strongly recommend not to bundle the atf-run / atf-report tools in the
> tree and instead just keep them in ports (for now).
> 
> Keeping the tools in the tree will set precedent as to a) how the
> tools behave and b) the fact that they are part of the base system.
> Both of these will make the transition to Kyua later on more complex
> for no reason: you know that transitions are always hard when users
> out there get used to something! If not, check out how the transition
> plan for NetBSD looked like ( http://wiki.netbsd.org/kyua/import/ );
> not pretty.
> 
> I think there is still time to undo the addition of the tools before
> the release is cut. And, for this reason, I'm attaching two related
> and updated patches. (Should I be filing a PR instead, or sending this
> to freebsd-testing?)
> 
> Who can make the call about this?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 22, 2013, at 7:54 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Speaking of backporting, has anybody yet merged Garrett's git branch
>>>>>> to a stable/9 based branch?  We're still basing our bsd.test.mk etc
>>>>>> off of a very old branch of Garrett's.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (sorry for double post; I sent the last post from the wrong email
>>>>>> alias so the message didn't get accepted by mailman)
>>>>> 
>>>>> No one has yet. And speaking of backporting, now the test
>>>>> infrastructure will allow you to build and install tests without bmake
>>>>> if you apply this commit:
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://github.com/yaneurabeya/freebsd/commit/79d9a53836dcf8127d17c35705dd8c79b040fc04
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is what I'm going to push into OneFS and is what should get
>>>>> pushed into FreeBSD as well.
>>>> 
>>>> I'll pull back things to stable/9. I have one box at home that I can
>>>> use for this effort (it's running stable/9). It would be curious to
>>>> see how 9.2-BETA1 fares compared to 10.0-CURRENT anyhoo…
>>> 
>>> Work taking place here for $work: https://github.com/yaneurabeya/freebsd/tree/stable-9-atf . Still not 100% there, but I should have things more sane in a couple of weeks (a lot of the pieces are already in place).
>> 
>>        And once I've worked out the patch from stable/9 (it's building stably -- I just need to run the tests and compare the results between 9 and 10), I'll create another branch for stable/8 as we (Isilon) need to hop to that before stable/9.
>> Thanks,
>> -Garrett
> 
> 
> 
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> Julio Merino / @jmmv
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