I want to share a fediverse test resource I've started putting together over the last few days. It's a minimal config sandbox with automatically provisioned SSL and DNS for fedi services. A lot of apps refuse to federate with instances that don't have ssl or proper domain names, as a security measure. This makes that easy to run locally for testing.
@jenniferplusplus@activitypubtestsuite thanks! I'll try to keep this in mind when/if I get to the federation part of my current project. Should prove to be very useful.
@activitypubtestsuite - question for the group: even if we were not to use it’s codebase, is there value in getting the old ActivityPub.rocks test suite live again? Just to see the old test in action?
It would be tremendously valuable. Anything that helps us test run a new app without installing a whole instance of some other app. How much work it would take to get running? @tchambers@activitypubtestsuite
@activitypubtestsuite Hey all! Just a quick intro to the group: I've had an interest in the indieweb for a while now, and the fediverse more recently, and when I heard about this project I figured I might be able to chip in, especially as I'll have a lot of free cycles soon.
In terms of skillset, I'm an experienced coder (lots of Ruby lately but I'm a polyglot), I've read and implemented a few specs (though not AP), and written a couple as well. So if I can be of any help, let me know!
BTW, where is a blog post version of a long 🧵of a rant I did yesterday on things Meta, that - no need to go into that part - but closed with why the need for a Test Suite for Activity Pub was a super big deal, and we need one - even in alpha form as soon as we can....
@tchambers@activitypubtestsuite@helge exciting piece of code and ideas / implementation.. I'm wondering how much @manton#activitypub activity micro.blog handles per day, at the platform level.. (my blog is MB but I'm not (yet) using @rmdes)
> With any standard or specification, eventually the discussion turns to “how will we know if an implementation or application conforms to our standard or specification?”