[pm-h] January Meeting (shut up and code)

[Todd Rinaldo]

Robert, Wade, and I met downtown tonight. 

We did an initial review of Net::Jabber::Bot. We discussed current projects
around and the possibility of using alternate perl jabber clients, but my
previous review of the Jabber::Lite revealed it to be incomplete, and
therefore not a good choice for long term use. 

The first issue we decided to tackle was the 0% success rate of automated
tests on CPAN due to dependance on server availability to complete the
tests. After some discussion, we decided to make a slight alteration to the
module to allow one to feed in a client object, rather than only creating it
automajically via new. This will allow us to provide a "mock" object we can
use to test and validate functionality. 

We've done some initial cleanup as a proof of concept for the mock approach.
There are 3 test files left to do the equivalent cleanup. When we're done,
there should be no server dependancies except for 1 test file requiring an
env variable to be set before it runs. 

We have setup a google code project to track our progress. It was a quick
setup, considering we all had google accounts. If anyone has any interest,
please let us know and we'll set you up.

Todd


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