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USERS
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It is helpful to consider the types of users for this system and their
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special needs.
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1) Project Managers: not very technical will be administering the
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project and need a GUI to help change various types of project
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information (treestate, message of the day, etc). They will also need
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summary pages which will show them the current status of all the
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projects which they are working on. They may occassionally "drill
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down" into the detailed status page but this will not be their primary
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view of the tinderbox system.
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2) Build Administrator: A system administrator who will be in charge
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of setting up the build machines, configuring tinderbox and other
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build systems (bugzilla, cvs, bonsai, etc). A GUI would not be
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helpful as local customizations may require small changes to the code.
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Configurations need to be kept (mostly) in files which are separate
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from the Tinderbox source code so that they can be version controled
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and will not get stepped on when tinderbox is upgradded.
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3) Developers: need to view the "state of development" and add notices
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to the notice board.
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Improvements needed from Tinderbox1
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highly configurable design with multiple Version Control systems
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possible (bonsai, raw cvs, perforce, continuious, clearcase) and
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multiple modes of running possible (with no version control system
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with no builds display).
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clear programatic interfaces and better separation of functionality
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into separate modules.
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It should be possible to add hooks so that users get beeped when the
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next good build goes through or that trouble tickets are automatically
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opened when the builds fail.
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Greater flexibility in setting status of builds. We may need more
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gradations of failure then just 'busted' or 'test-failed' to
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distinguish the types of tests which have failed.
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It should be possible to watch projects milestone progress via
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tinderbox. Each milestone could be recorded as a column which tests
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for the features in the milestone. When milestones are hit the column
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turns green. The project is over when all columns turn green.
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generated html must be readable and help isolate programming errors.
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all programmable configuration parameters should be stored easy change
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and configure for novice users.
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make better use of the perl data structures to mirror the way we wish
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to use the data. This will allow easier maintainabilty and allow for
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more expansion of features.
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popup windows should not be netscape specific.
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Permanent data should be stored via datadumper so that the data and
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datastrucutres are easy to read and debug. Currently this is a
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performance bottle neck with a large percentage of our cpu time during
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testing being spent in Data::Dumper::Dump. I expect this to improve
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when we install the newest version of perl. The perl module Storable
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is rumored to be much faster. I wish to not add additional module
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requirements at this time this will be configurable.
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# dprofpp says that:
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# %64.8 of elapsed real time which is 66.25 seconds
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# (out of 102.15 Seconds)
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# was spent in 3 calls to TinderDB::VC::apply_db_updates()
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# %58.0 of user time which is 11.05 seconds
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# (out of 19.03 User/102.15 Elapsed Seconds)
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# was spend in 32878 calls to Data::Dumper::_dump()
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# System Time was negligable at 2.49 Seconds
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All errors should be trapped and sent to log files. Strange program
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states should be explicitly checked for.
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Databases should update atomically, no information should be lost due
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to race conditions.
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All modules (processmail, build, VC, Notices) should be able to be run
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individually. Modules should accept well defined text files as input
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and produce text files as output. This will greatly inhance the
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ability to test each module in isolation and to quickly port modules
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to new architectures.
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The source code should be able to run using the standard Perl
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libraries, as it can be difficult for some users to add libraries
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which are not included in the perl distribution onto production
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machines.
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Put CVS keywords into all the source files so that when the software
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is deployed, there is no doubt what version was checked out and where
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the files are stored in the local version control system.
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Pay closer attention to security. Use taint perl to ensure that
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harmful input does not get used in unexpected ways. Keep the flow of
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control clear and simple.
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