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I was using from time ago this extension for Gnome named Argos which allows to create useful data views using scripts written in whatever language of choice available, bash included. So far I had just a simple extension writing a UNICODE character, but with the suggestion of my colleague Javi Ramírez, I decided to use the motivational idea to write a simple script to calculate how much you’ve earned so far in the day and show that information at a glance on your menu bar. ...

Citellus: Detecting common pitfalls of deployments https://github.com/citellusorg/citellus Recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDzzqrUdn5A What is Citellus? Citellus is a framework populated by community-contributed scripts that automate detecting problems, including configuration issues, conflicts with package versions, and more. History: how did was it started? The tool, started by Robin Černín after a long weekend shift checking one and over again several sosreports for the same data on different hosts. It started with some tests + shell wrapper, and was added a python wrapper by Pablo Iranzo to bring in more powerful features. ...

Introduction In order to improve Citellus and Magui, we did implement some Unit testing to improve code quality. The tests written were made in python and with some changes it was also possible to validate the actual tests. Also, we did prepare the strings in python using gettext library so the actual messages can be translated to the language of choice (defaults to en, but can be changed via --lang modifier of citellus). ...

Why? While working on Citellus and Magui it soon became evident that Unit testing for validating the changes was a requirement. Initially, using a .travis.yml file contained in the repo and the free service provided by https://travis-ci.org we soon got https://github.com repo providing information about if the builds succeeded or not. When it was decided to move to https://gerrithub.io to work in a more similar way to what is being done in upstream, we improved on the code commenting (peer review), but we lost the ability to run the tests in an automated way until the change was merged into github. ...

Background Citellus allows to check a sosreport against known problems identified on the provided tests. This approach is easy to implement and easy to test but has limitations when a problem can span across several hosts and only the problem reveals itself when a general analysis is performed. Magui tries to solve that by running the analysis functions inside citellus across a set of sosreports, unifying the data obtained per citellus plugin. ...