Update and fix some minor issues with docs

This commit updates the documentation to add some missing details,
bring the release notes and todo list up to date, and add a section
to the subunit2sql-graph docs for the dailycount graph type.
Additionally, some minor issues are corrected, like missing links
to the subunit and testrepository documentation, man page generation
from the sphinx builds, and internal links between sections.

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subunit2SQL README
==================
subunit2SQL like it's name implies is a tool used for converting subunit
streams to data in a SQL database. The motivation is that for multiple
distributed test runs that are generating subunit output it is useful to
store the results in a unified repository. This is the motivation for the
testrepository project which does a good job for centralizing the results from
multiple test runs.
subunit2SQL is a tool for storing test results data in a SQL database. Like
it's name implies it was originally designed around converting `subunit`_
streams to data in a SQL database and the packaged utilities assume a subunit
stream as the input format. However, the data model used for the DB does not
preclude using any test result format. Additionally the analysis tooling built
on top of a database is data format agnostic. However if you choose to use a
different result format as an input for the database additional tooling using
the DB api would need to be created to parse a different test result output
format. It's also worth pointing out that subunit has several language library
bindings available. So as a user you could create a small filter to convert a
different format to subunit. Creating a filter should be fairly easy and then
you don't have to worry about writing a tool like :ref:_`subunit2sql` to use a
different format.
.. _subunit: https://github.com/testing-cabal/subunit/blob/master/README.rst
For multiple distributed test runs that are generating subunit output it is
useful to store the results in a unified repository. This is the motivation for
the _`testrepository` project which does a good job for centralizing the
results from multiple test runs.
.. _testrepository: http://testrepository.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
However, imagine something like the OpenStack CI system where the same basic
test suite is normally run several hundreds of times a day. To provide useful
introspection on the data from those runs and to build trends over time
the test results need to be stored in a format that allows for easy querying.
Using a SQL database makes a lot of sense for doing this.
Using a SQL database makes a lot of sense for doing this, which was the
original motivation for the project.
subunit2SQL uses alembic migrations to setup a DB schema that can then be used
by the subunit2sql binary to parse subunit streams and populate the DB.
Additionally, it provides a DB API that can be used to query information from
the results stored to build other tooling.
At a high level subunit2SQL uses alembic migrations to setup a DB schema that
can then be used by the :ref:`subunit2sql` tool to parse subunit streams and
populate the DB. Then there are tools for interacting with the stored data in
the :ref:`subunit2sql-graph` command as well as the :ref:`sql2subunit`
command to create a subunit stream from data in the database. Additionally,
subunit2sql provides a Python DB API that can be used to query information from
the stored data to build other tooling.
Usage
=====
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with MySQL or Postgres make it worth the effort of setting up one of them to
use subunit2sql.
Running subunit2sql
-------------------
.. _subunit2sql:
subunit2sql
-----------
Once you have a database setup with the proper database schema you can then use
the subunit2sql command to populate the database with data from your test runs.
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run being added. The run_meta option takes in a dictionary which will be added
to the database as key value pairs associated with the run being added.
Creating a v2 Subunit Stream from the DB
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
.. _sql2subunit:
sql2subunit
-----------
The sql2subunit utility is used for taking a run_id and creating a subunit
v2 stream from the data in the DB about that run. To create a new subunit
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subunit v2 stream for the run specified by $RUN_ID, unless the --out_path
argument is specified to write it to a file instead.
Release Notes
=============
0.7.0
-----
* Initial external plugin support for the subunit2sql-graph command
* Internal code cleanup around the use of the oslo namespace package
* A temporary version cap on oslo.db limiting it to < 2.0.0 because of a
subunit2sql dependency on an internal oslo.db interface (this will be removed
in a future release)
0.6.0
-----
* subunit2sql-graph improvements:
* Use setuptools extras to list graph requirements
* Adds documentation
* New graph type to show daily test count over time
* Graph cleanups
* Start of attachments support
* Adds a new table to store arbitrary attachments from a subunit stream
* Support to the subunit2sql utility to store attachments in the attachments
table
0.5.1
-----
* Remove matplotlib from requirements file to avoid requiring additional C

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Short Term
----------
* Add attachments support to the sql2subunit utility
* Enable sqlite support for the data migrations to enable using sqlite as
a database backend
* Add more unit tests
* DB API unit tests
* write_subunit module
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Longer Term
-----------
* Add tooling to pull the data and visualize it in fun ways
* Add some statistics functions on top of the DB api to perform analysis
* Add a subunit2sql repository type to the testrepository project

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# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
man_pages = [
('index', 'subunit2sql', u'subunit2SQL Documentation',
[u'Matthew Treinish'], 1)
('README', 'subunit2sql', u'Tooling for storing and interacting with test'
' results databases', [u'Matthew Treinish'], 1),
('graph', 'subunit2sql-graph', 'A tool for generating graphs from a '
'subunit2sql database', ['Matthew Treinish'], 1)
]
# If true, show URL addresses after external links.

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Subunit2SQL Graphs
.. _subunit2sql-graph:
subunit2sql-graph
==================
subunit2sql includes a utility to generate various graphs from the data in a
database. This is used to provide a more visual analysis of the data contained
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subunit2sql-graph failures --help
Daily Test Counts
-----------------
This graph is used to show the the daily # of tests run as a time series line graph.
For example, running something like::
subunit2sql-graph --database-connection mysql://test:test@localhost/subunit2sql --output test.png --title 'Daily Test Count' dailycount
will generate a graph like:
.. image:: graph-dailycount.png
subunit2sql-graph plugin interface
==================================