📅 2025-12-29 — Session: Enhancing Automation with Git and Plugin Management
🕒 18:40–19:45
🏷️ Labels: Git, Automation, Plugin, Makefile, Runner
📂 Project: Dev
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance automation processes by refining Git repository handling, addressing runner integrity issues, and improving plugin management.
Key Activities
- Understanding Git Repository Paths: Clarified the distinction between local directories and GitHub URLs, providing step-by-step instructions for using Git repositories effectively.
- Addressing Runner Integrity Issues: Outlined strategies to resolve systemic issues related to runner integrity, repo root correctness, and smoke contract definitions.
- Automating Makefile Management: Developed a bash script to manage Makefiles, ensuring uniform project governance by checking and creating Makefile stubs when necessary.
- Redesigning Smoke Plugin: Redesigned the Smoke Plugin to integrate with Makefile targets, ensuring compliance with defined contracts.
- Troubleshooting Plugin Loading Issues: Provided steps to resolve ‘PLUGIN_NOT_FOUND’ errors, focusing on plugin naming and logging improvements.
- Refining Plugin Execution Logic: Proposed restructuring the execution logic of plugins in automation runners to clarify policy and runner roles.
Achievements
- Improved understanding of Git repository paths and enhanced automation scripts for Makefile management.
- Successfully addressed runner integrity issues and redesigned the Smoke Plugin for better integration.
- Enhanced plugin management by troubleshooting loading issues and refining execution logic.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing and validation of the redesigned Smoke Plugin and refined execution logic in diverse environments.
- Continuous monitoring and improvement of runner integrity and plugin management processes.