New Checkbox release available in our Stable PPA! (2017-02-03)

[Ara Pulido]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 9:33 AM, Sylvain Pineau <sylvain.pineau at canonical.com
> wrote:

> On 06/02/2017 09:23, Ara Pulido wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Sylvain Pineau <
> sylvain.pineau at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all!
>
> A new release of Checkbox is available in the stable PPA:
> https://launchpad.net/~hardware-certification/+archive/ubuntu/public
> <https://code.launchpad.net/%7Echeckbox-dev/+archive/testing>
>
> It includes the following components:
>
>    - checkbox-support 0.33.0
>    - plainbox 0.33.0
>    - checkbox-ng 0.31.0
>    - plainbox-provider-checkbox 0.34.0
>    - plainbox-provider-resource-generic 0.31.0
>    - plainbox-provider-certification-server 0.31.0
>    - Firmware Test Suite 17.01 (Complete changelog
>    <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FirmwareTestSuite/ReleaseNotes/17.01.00>)
>
>
> New features:
>
>
>    - *Job siblings and after suspend flags*, both will make easy the
>    creation of
>    "after suspend" sort of jobs by reusing existing definitions and stop
>    duplicating
>    them in separate pxu files.
>
>
> This looks useful. Any examples on how this works?
>
> Oops, I did give the link in the "call for testing" email but forgot to
> add it to the final one.
> Here's the doc about the new feature:
> See http://checkbox.readthedocs.io/projects/plainbox/en/
> latest/manpages/plainbox-job-units.html?highlight=siblings
>

Great, thanks!


>
>
> I've added them to plainbox but I'll propose the same content to checkbox
> since it's our main entry point to readthedoc.
>
> The feature itself has been added mainly because of snappy where we have
> to add a ton of "after suspend" jobs.
> I wanted to avoid having to maintain two copies (more or less) of the same
> job for plano projects.
> But it's not limited to snappy and our desktop providers will also benefit
> from it.
>

We do indeed have a lot of after suspend jobs in our desktop provider. Are
we planning to move those to be siblings jobs?

Thanks!
Ara.


>
> Sylvain
>
>
> Thanks!
> Ara.
>
>
>
>
>
>    - Udev parser now detects *CANBUS* device
>
>
>    - Udev parser* stops reporting **USB drives as DISK* to prevent
>    template jobs
>    to run costly stress tests on them (note we still have dedicated usb
>    storage tests)
>
>
> Bug fixed <https://goo.gl/SJbrPU>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Sylvain Pineau
>
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