This post is part of my GSOC journey in coala.

Because aspect is still new and experimental, many things around it is still untested. Also, not all bear in coala (read: none of them) support aspect. And it will be a long time before it happen. So I think it’s important to make the migration process became more easy.

In this phase, I try to polish up feature so hopefully it will became more sane to be used. Of course there are still many missing things that I don’t think of now, but hopefully I can catch them and add follow up patches. The polishing up could be separated to users perspective and developer perspective:

User’s perspective

Warn unfulfilled aspect

As mentioned before, aspect ready bear is still a rare species compared to number of aspect definition in coala. This make it very possible to request an aspect that doesn’t have any bear that support it. We need to warn user if this happen.

https://github.com/coala/coala/pull/4657

Funny fact I just learn that for...else syntax is a thing!

Logs Various Message

Make sure users is informed what happen (if something goes wrong). Cases like setting bears and aspects setting at the same time will ignore the bears setting and missing or invalid language setting should throw a warning logs.

https://github.com/coala/coala/pull/4582

I also use this opportunity to refactor the verification code into its own function instead of separated into various function in order to make it more easier to read (hopefully).

Write Docs on Configuring coala With Aspect

I write a help page on how to configure aspect and list of required setting.

https://github.com/coala/documentation/pull/462

Create Example Project that Showcase it All

Showcase aspect in progress, best tutorial is a live project!

WIP, should be possible after all PR is merged

Developer perspective

Write Docs on Bear’s Aspectization

A docs containing example of a aspectized bear

https://github.com/coala/coala/pull/4666

Create Mapping from Bear’s Setting to Aspect/Taste Equivalent

This is a bit of quality-of-life feature but still pretty important to make sure bear got aspectized easily. This will map a bear setting with aspect.

https://github.com/coala/coala/pull/4662

Integration Test

In here I write a test that run coala with aspect configuration to make sure everything work correctly.

In coala/coala itself, I write an end-to-end test that call coala cli to run with aspect. The purpose is to make sure every component related to aspect atleast can run without error.

The second part is to create a showcase project like from the user perspective. Ideally it could automatically update along with coala.