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{{admon/caution|Taskotron development reached end of life|Taskotron has been [https://kparal.wordpress.com/2020/04/30/taskotron-is-eol-end-of-life-today/ sunset] in Fedora Infrastructure. It is no longer running and no longer being developed. You can use these wiki pages to learn about its history, but please be aware that the information is no longer actual.}}
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== Overview ==
== Overview ==


'''Taskotron''' is a framework for automated task execution. It is in very early stages of development with the initial objective of replacing [[AutoQA]] for automating selected package checks in Fedora.
'''Taskotron''' was a framework for automated task execution. It ran selected package checks in Fedora.


Some of its major envisioned features:
Some of its major envisioned features:
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* Useful for other Linux distributions as well, not just Fedora
* Useful for other Linux distributions as well, not just Fedora


== Our systems ==
== Source code, getting involved and contributing ==
 
Taskotron consisted of multiple separate components, mainly hosted in the [https://pagure.io/group/taskotron {{code|taskotron}} namespace in Pagure]. The general tasks that were developed along with Taskotron were named with the ''task-'' prefix.
 
Contributors could use the [[Taskotron contribution guide|contribution guide]].


* [https://taskotron-stg.fedoraproject.org/ Taskotron staging instance]
The main mailing list for Taskotron discussion was {{fplist|qa-devel}}. The main IRC channel was {{fpchat|#fedora-qa}}.


== Read more ==
== Documentation and further reading ==


There's not much documentation yet, but we are working on it. For the moment, you can read:
There was [https://qa.fedoraproject.org/docs/libtaskotron/latest/quickstart.html Libtaskotron quick start] and [https://qa.fedoraproject.org/docs/libtaskotron/latest/ Taskotron documentation]. You may also find this further reading of interest:


* [[User:Tflink/taskotron development plan]]
* [[User:Tflink/taskotron development plan]]
* [[User:Tflink/taskotron development subprojects]]
* [[User:Tflink/taskotron development subprojects]]
* [[User:Tflink/taskotron contribution guide]]
* [http://roshi.fedorapeople.org/dexy-themed Install a dev instance]
* [[:Category:Taskotron]]
* [[:Category:Taskotron]]
* [http://tirfa.com/tag/taskotron.html Tim Flink's blog - Taskotron tag]
* [http://tirfa.com/tag/taskotron.html Tim Flink's blog - Taskotron tag]
* [[Taskotron/Tasks | Current Tasks]]
* [[Taskotron/Tasks | Current Tasks]]


This documents some of the reasons for re-implementing AutoQA as Taskotron:
[[Category:QA]]
* [http://tirfa.com/down-with-test-automation-long-live-task-automation.html Down With Test Automation! Long Live Task Automation!]
[[Category:Taskotron]]
* [http://tirfa.com/an-initial-idea-for-taskbot.html An Initial Idea for Taskbot]
* [http://tirfa.com/how-is-taskbot-different-from-autoqa.html How is Taskbot Different from AutoQA?]
 
== Get involved ==
 
* '''[[User:Tflink/taskotron contribution guide]] - a quick start guide'''
* [https://bitbucket.org/fedoraqa Fedora QA on Bitbucket] - our code repositories
* [[QA/Phabricator|Phabricator]] - ticket tracking and code review system
* [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/qa-devel qa-devel] - a mailing list for development discussion of Taskotron and other [[QA/Tools|QA tools]]
* {{fpchat|#fedora-qa}} - our IRC channel
 
 
[[Category:QA]] [[Category:Taskotron]]

Latest revision as of 14:59, 7 May 2020

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Taskotron development reached end of life
Taskotron has been sunset in Fedora Infrastructure. It is no longer running and no longer being developed. You can use these wiki pages to learn about its history, but please be aware that the information is no longer actual.
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ResultsDB is still operational
Even when Taskotron is EOL, ResultsDB is still being used. You can use our simple web frontend to explore the production instance.

Overview

Taskotron was a framework for automated task execution. It ran selected package checks in Fedora.

Some of its major envisioned features:

  • Support for distribution-wide checks - e.g. Can this set of packages be pushed to stable updates repository? or Is this new system compose installable?
  • Support for package-related checks - e.g. Can this new build of firefox package be safely updated? or Do the functional tests pass for this new build of openssh?
  • Simple check management - package maintainers in full control of their package-related checks, no hurdles
  • Event-based - where applicable only the simplest interaction between services is used - passing messages through a message bus - for both check triggering and result reporting. No hardcoded tie-ins to specific services.
  • Decoupled design - comprised of loosely-coupled standalone units (tools, libraries) so that important logical functions are separated and one unit can be replaced with a different unit with similar functionality
  • Trivial local execution - no need to replicate the production environment with all its servers and configurations, the check authors can easily run and develop their checks on their local machine with no unnecessary software setup hassle
  • Useful for other Linux distributions as well, not just Fedora

Source code, getting involved and contributing

Taskotron consisted of multiple separate components, mainly hosted in the taskotron namespace in Pagure. The general tasks that were developed along with Taskotron were named with the task- prefix.

Contributors could use the contribution guide.

The main mailing list for Taskotron discussion was qa-devel. The main IRC channel was #fedora-qa[?].

Documentation and further reading

There was Libtaskotron quick start and Taskotron documentation. You may also find this further reading of interest: