[Qgis-developer] notifying developers on hub (and new credentials support)

[Nyall Dawson]

On 16 February 2016 at 08:05, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
> I'm chasing a bug in the only testcase we have for the PostgreSQL
> provider and could not figure out how to "ping" other developers
> on an issue.
>
> The OSGeo trac instances have a "Cc" field for that, and github
> has the @mention trick. Is there an equivalent thing for redmine ?

It's pretty obnoxious, but you could assign them and then un-assign
them? ;) I'm not aware of any other way...

>
> Nyall: taking the chance to notify here, the issue is that the test
> hangs when not being able to reach the database, and I suspect this
> has to do with credentials checking, due to this message being printed
> right before entering a select loop and never coming out of it:
>
>  195: credentials for dbname='qgis_test' sslmode=disable
>  195: message: could not connect to server: No such file or directory
>
> The printout comes from QgsCredentialsConsole::request, so I guess
> the test is not using an appropriate-for-test QgsCredential subclass
> (which should just never prompt the user).
>
> The ticket is here, if you want to give an hint about how tests
> should be dealing with this problem. I guess we'd want a
> QgsCredentialsAuto or something ?
>
>  http://hub.qgis.org/issues/14269


I'm not sure - it's not really my area of expertise. Jürgen, Matthias
or Larry would be better to ask.

Nyall