Consider moving project to pytest-dev for maintenance

kevlened / pytest-parallel

A pytest plugin for parallel and concurrent testing

https://github.com/browsertron/pytest-parallel/issues/104#issuecomment-1293941066

MIT License

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Consider moving project to pytest-dev for maintenance #99

Closed amitSA closed 2 years ago

amitSA commented 3 years ago

I appreciate this project (and it looks like others do to), and I can't find any other existing project that does thread based parallelism.

However it seems like it's becoming un-mantained, would the owners consider moving this to the pytest-dev organization ? There are some low-hanging fruit that others have PRs for and I'd love to see those merged!

I could also help out with that effort.

ssbarnea commented 3 years ago

That was a good call, I ended up avoiding any plugin that is now under pytest-dev in order to not rely of something that can easily become a maintenance liability. It is quite easy to initiate the process with a ticket on https://github.com/pytest-dev/meta/issues?q=is%3Aissue+

amitSA commented 3 years ago

@kevlened I think you're the maintainer, so this will need your approval.

r2dev2 commented 3 years ago

For Python 3.9 support, I have uploaded @andni233's fork to pip under the name of pytest-parallel-39 if anyone wants to use this module with Python 3.9.

ssbarnea commented 3 years ago

@kevlened Any answer would be better than none.

kevlened commented 3 years ago

@amitSA Thanks for the suggestion. Adoption is the best outcome for pytest-parallel. While the promise of threaded testing is appealing, the implementation relies upon Pytest internals which requires an up-to-date understanding for each Pytest version. It also relies on Python's multiprocessing lib which seems to have nuances between versions. These challenges make pytest-parallel tricky to maintain.

I'm grateful for @andni233's contribution. It's been merged, although attempting to deploy to PyPI has surfaced its own issues on my m1. You're welcome to use @r2dev2's upload or attempt to install directly from this repo. Otherwise, I hope it will be adopted soon.

If @ssbarnea or @amitSA would like to manage the adoption process, let me know, and I'll add you as a contributor to the project.

amitSA commented 3 years ago

Sure, if you add me as a contributor I can manage the adoption process to pytest-dev. Thanks @kevlened!

Looking at the instructions for migrating to pytest-dev, the first step is to transfer repo ownership to a pytest-dev admin. In order for I to do that, I'll need to be an admin.

kevlened commented 3 years ago

Excellent! Invited you to be an admin.

amitSA commented 3 years ago

@kevlened I've been preoccupied so haven't been able to start the process, maybe @ssbarnea you'd like to start the migration assuming @kevlened is okay with it ?