Tox: Measure and report times required for steps

[gaborbernat]

This would be great for debugging and general knowledge:

• time required to created virtual env
• time required to install dependencies
• time required to run commands

Maybe measure on show only when the custom flag --profile/--duration has been passed.

[The-Compiler]

You could probably write a plugin to do that.

[gaborbernat]

@The-Compiler

Indeed. Wrote that within an hour. At this point just wondering if maybe this could/should or not be part of the core.

[obestwalter]

I like the idea and would probably use it as plugin. As a start we could get the plugin into the org, so it gets more visibility. AFAIK there is no strategy when if and how plugins can/should be integrated into core. I opened an issue though for getting plugins into the org: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/445

[gaborbernat]

@The-Compiler @obestwalter here's my naive implementation https://github.com/gaborbernat/tox-durations/blob/master/tox_durations.py

[obestwalter]

Hi @gaborbernat, thanks. I will check it out as soon as I have some time. Any chance you'll be releasing it on pypi?

[gaborbernat]

yeah, once it gets some review :+1: I'll also polish it a little, I just wanted to get first some feedback on a conceptual level

[gaborbernat]

@obestwalter any ETA on this?

[obestwalter]

I just set ETA for ... the Future :)

I would suggest we move the plugin into the org, to give it more visibility and finally have our first plugin there, so that people realize that this is poosible.

[obestwalter]

It's a nice example also for how easy it can be to write a plugin :)

[gaborbernat]

I agree, we should move it under the organization with other similar plugins. This definitely could act as a minimal viable product for a plugin.

[obestwalter]

Cool - let's do this: https://help.github.com/articles/about-repository-transfers/

I think you have to initiate it and then I have to complete it or something like that. I set you as an owner for that repo again, cause this right gets lost on transfer IIUC.

[obestwalter]

@gaborbernat ping - I'm keen to move the first plugin into the org 🍾

[gaborbernat]

You don’t have the permission to create repositories on tox-dev
https://help.github.com/articles/transferring-a-repository-owned-by-your-personal-account/#transferring-to-an-organization

[obestwalter]

I thought that this is going to be interesting - this is why I want to try it out with you first :)

[obestwalter]

I invited you as a member of the org now

[gaborbernat]

Done :+1: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox-durations

[obestwalter]

🍾 🍾 🍾

[obestwalter]

We should leave this open until the docs are updated with info about this (and hopefully other) plugin.

[gaborbernat]

I'll take this and create a plugin page on our docs :+1:

[obestwalter]

Thanks. As a side note - I think the durations plugin needs a bit more love, before it is ready for prime time. A pypi release for starters.

[gaborbernat]

@obestwalter yeah, it's current state it's really just a POC; the README should also for example detail what states are in tox to give a sense what duration it measures

[gaborbernat]

Will actually do this the next weeks :smile:

[obestwalter]

tox-durations exists for quite a while now, so I think we can close this.

[gaborbernat]

not released yet, so let's keep it open