How to Help

batou is under active development, and contributions are more than welcome!

  1. Check for open issues or open a fresh issue to start a discussion around a bug.

  2. Fork the repository on Bitbucket and start making your changes to a new branch.

  3. Write a test which shows that the bug or feature works fine.

  4. Send a pull request and bug the maintainer until it gets merged and published. :) Make sure to add yourself to AUTHORS.

Ideas

  • A continuous deployment server would be nice. I started experimenting with a new project that would be called “Aramaki”. Contact @theuni if you are interested.

  • Documentation improvements are always welcome. Especially if you’re missing something or would like to understand things. We’ll be happy to explain things in depth – a good deed would then be to improve our documentation.

  • Switching from the Component base class to an explicit API to avoid namespace collisions would be nice. The idea would be to create components using a class decorator:

    from batou import component

@component
class MyApp(object):

    def configure(self, b):
        self += File(...)

    def verify(self, b):
        b.assert_no_subcomponent_changes('touch asdf')

    def verify(self, b):
        b.cmd('rm -rf /')

    b is an API object bound to the component that provides the standard API. This way, you can use any names on your environment without the hassle of potential namespace collisions.

  • More pre-defined, reusable components are welcome. Check the batou_ext repository.

  • Supporting provisioning for platforms aside from Vagrant: e.g. Amazon, Flying Circus, …

Development Dependencies

We use zc.buildout to manage the batou build environment:

$ virtualenv --python=python2.7
$ bin/pip install zc.buildout
$ bin/buildout

Run py.test to verify that everything works fine:

$ bin/py.test
================= test session starts ==================
platform darwin -- Python 2.7.10 -- py-1.4.26 -- pytest-2.6.4
plugins: cache, capturelog, codecheckers, cov, timeout
collected 426 items

src/batou/__init__.py ..
src/batou/_output.py ..
src/batou/agent.py ..
src/batou/bootstrap.py ..
src/batou/buildout.py ..
src/batou/c.py ..
src/batou/component.py ..
...

Runtime Environments

We will likely not accept patches that are related to Windows. We are open to good arguments, though.

Downstream Repackaging

batou is not intended for downstream repackaging.