633484 - Create hg.mozilla.org/services/[server-devtools|devtools]

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Tarek Ziadé (:tarek)]

I'd like to create a new repository

= Rationale =

This repository will contain the server dev tools. I initially started it here: https://bitbucket.org/tarek/mopytools and I published it under the "MopyTools" nam in the Python community.

The dev tools can be used to :

- bootstrap a developer box and make sure it has all the required tools, like Flake8 etc.. see http://sync.ziade.org/doc/setup.html#prerequisites

- create new services application using templates. see http://sync.ziade.org/doc/code.html#paster-template

It also contains:

- our build script
- a build server that the build script can use to auto-upgrade the build script

In the future, I expect adding more dev tools there in order, and all our developers will just have to update their "MoPyTools" to get them, via a simple update command.

We could also add goodies like client scripts to tests our servers from the command line, etc.

= Naming, scope =

I am wondering if this is really only for server people. I can definitely see Stefan or Phillip hacking on their clients and installing it.

So, maybe we should call it "devtools" instead of "server-devtools"

Comment 1

[Justin Lazaro [:jlaz] (use needinfo)]

Created this as server-devtools but missed that last line.  Let me know what should be decided as the final name for this repo

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Let's leave it as server-devtools for now.