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Testflinger

Testflinger is a system for orchestrating time-shared access to a pool of target machines.

• canonical/testflinger ↗

• Python
• CLI
• Hardware testing
• Canonical

Shipped contributions

• merged feat: add human-readable duration format support for reservation timeouts canonical/testflinger
  A server-side change for Testflinger that lets reservation jobs use durations like 2h30m instead of forcing operators to convert hours into seconds.
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• merged feat(cli): add job status information to queue-status command canonical/testflinger
  A CLI change for Testflinger that folds job counts into queue-status, with a verbose mode that lists individual job IDs and a JSON mode that keeps existing consumers working.
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• merged fix(cli): improve confusing queue position message (#461) canonical/testflinger
  A small CLI change for Testflinger that replaces the misleading "Jobs ahead in queue 0" line with a clearer "Queue position next in line", and pairs absolute position with jobs-ahead for the mid-queue case.
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• open fix(agent): handle None response from retry exhaustion to prevent crashes canonical/testflinger

  Splits the None (retry exhaustion) and Response(status>=400) cases across five client methods, so the agent stops crashing on sustained 503 storms. Fixes #438. Currently open.