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Mostly comes from my own testdriver I used for manual virt-manager testing. Add some notes to HACKING about using it.
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HACKING
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We use glade-3 for building virt-manager's UI. It is recommended you have
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a fairly recent version of glade-3: if a small UI change seems to rewrite the
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entire glade file, you likely have a too old (or too new :) glade version.
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The following commands will be useful for anyone writing patches:
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python setup.py test : Run local unit test suite
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python setup.py pylint : Run a pylint script against the codebase
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Any patches shouldn't change the output of 'test' or 'pylint'. The
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'pylint' requires pylint and python-pep8 to be installed.
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Our pylint script uses a blacklist rather than a whitelist approach,
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so it could throw some false positives or useless messages. If you think
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your patch exposes one of these, bring it up on the mailing list.
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If 'python-coverage' is installed, you can run 'coverage -r' after 'test'
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to see a code coverage report.
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'test*' have a --debug option if you are hitting problems.
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One useful way to manually test virt-manager's UI is using libvirt's
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unit test driver. From the source directory, Launch virt-manager like:
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virt-manager --connect test://$PWD/tests/testdriver.xml
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This testdriver has many fake XML definitions that can be used to see
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each bit of virt-manager's UI. It also enables testing the various wizards
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without having to alter your host virt config.
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Submitting patches
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Patches should be developed against a git checkout and _not_ a source
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release. The git repo is at
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git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/virt-manager.git
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For an web view, see:
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https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/virt-manager.git/
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Patches should be sent to the mailing list (see README for details). Using
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git format-patch/send-email is preferred, but an attachment with
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format-patch output is fine too.
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Translations
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For translations, please sign up for transifex.com and contribute to the
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virt-manager project.
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