Bug 980660

Summary: Clearly document beah task structure
Product: [Retired] Beaker Reporter: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan>
Component: DocAssignee: beaker-dev-list
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version: 0.13CC: bpeck, jingwang, kbanerje, mastyk, qwan, tools-bugs
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Last Closed: 2020-02-26 06:45:06 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Nick Coghlan 2013-07-03 00:52:57 UTC 
The new task docs in Beaker 0.13 are in improvement, but are still missing an overview of the required contents of a beah task. The example relies on beaker-wizard to generate the skeleton, while the task metadata section runs through some expected variables in the Makefile and testinfo.desc without actually summarising the expected files anywhere.

We need a "Structure of a beah task" section which:

1. Explains the required files
2. Explains the general concepts involved in result reporting and log uploading
3. Makes it clear that tasks are assumed to fail by default, *unless* a positive result is reported (and rhts-run-simple-command is an easier way to do that)

This section would reference other sections for details where appropriate.


+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #980423 +++
Comment 1 Martin Styk 2020-02-26 06:45:06 UTC 
https://beaker-project.org/docs/user-guide/task-metadata.html