[Dbconfig-common-devel] new team member and other updates

[sean finney]

hey everyone,

i've just added Niko Tyni (ntyni) to the alioth team for dbconfig-common.  
Niko has been submitting a hefty collection of bugs against dbconfig-common, 
so i thought it prudent to invite Niko to join the team and help manage 
fixing them as well :)

so, welcome!

in other news, i've been wanting to implement some kind of unit-testing 
framework for the dbconfig-common internals for quite some time.  i think the 
code is sufficiently complex that at this point i get nervous with every 
change that i make, and testing that one change doesn't break something else 
is difficult and tedious.  throw in a list of different possible /bin/sh 
implementations and it gets even worse.

so, the other day i stumbled across shunit2 (debian packaged, even), which is 
sort of a shell-script version of junit.  i've implemented some basic test 
cases already.  if you're curious, take a look in the ./test directory, at 
the runtests.sh and basic.ts scripts.  i'll be working next on creating some 
mock test cases for the various database type support functions, and 
eventually will try to do everything up to and including preseeded database 
installs/upgrades/removals.  this should drastically increase the code 
reliability as well as make it easier to introduce new code/features.


	sean
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