Re: state of the templates?

On 10/16/2014 04:08 AM, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Stuart McGraw <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 10/09/2014 09:49 PM, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>>> I chose to use the "devel" templates distributed with Roundup
>>> as the basis of a tracker I am configuring.
>>>[...]
>>> So I wonder if the devel templates are in the same state they
>>> were in version 1.4.10 or earlier?
>>>
>>> My question is, have the "devel" templates not been kept up to
>>> date?  (I've noted and fixed some other, what seemed to me to
>>> be obvious, problems with them, see for example
>>>  http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550855)
>>
>> Nobody has a comment on this??
> 
> I have. =) The Mercurial history is invaluable to see what was made
> during certain time. For example:
> 
> $ cd share/roundup/templates/devel
> $ hg log .
> 
> I see that there are security fixes and more.

Yes, I'd forgotten about the Mercurial history for the templates.
I'll take a look at that. 

>> Surely I can't be the first person to choose to use the devel
>> templates and run into problems with them?
> 
> Right. I run into problems with templates before and found out that
> keeping them all consistent with internal data models that Roundup
> has (and especially with changes in those models) is manual process.
> There are no selenium tests, e.g. no harness - well, there are some
> tests for templates, but I am not sure they cover the whole tracker
> thing, no versioning of templates and the aforementioned data model.
> 
>> I went through all the Updating... docs and applied all that did
>> not seem to have been applied already (some but not many were already
>> in there) and mostly things seem to be working most ok but I keep
>> coming across new problems.
> 
> It is a good way to start writing tests, actually. Something like
> http://twill.idyll.org/ or alternatives that can go through all essential
> demo pages and templates.

Twill looks pretty useful.  I don't do much web development
and have never tried writing tests for web pages before but 
maybe its time to start.





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