temporary directories for tests created in project root

[jennifer-richards]

When running tests, a bunch of temporary directories are created in the project root:

$ ls -d tmp*
tmp-bibxml_base_path-submittests-dir/                 tmp-rfc_path-submittests-dir/
tmp-idsubmit_staging_path-submittests-dir/            tmp-storage-meetinghosttests-dir/
tmp-internet_all_drafts_archive_dir-submittests-dir/  tmp-submit_yang_catalog_dir-submittests-dir/
tmp-internet_draft_archive_dir-submittests-dir/       tmp-submit_yang_draft_model_dir-submittests-dir/
tmp-internet_draft_path-submittests-dir/              tmp-submit_yang_iana_model_dir-submittests-dir/
tmp-nomcom-public-keys-dir/                           tmp-submit_yang_rfc_model_dir-submittests-dir/

Some of these are not cleaned up (see #3520), but they also interact poorly with PyCharm's external file detection. When tests are running, a window pops up offering to add the files to version control, causing annoyance.

If these temporary directories could be placed in a common subdirectory (tmp/ or test/, perhaps) that can be excluded from the project in the IDE, this would allow the sometimes useful external file alert to be enabled without the annoyance of repeated suggestions to add throwaway test files to the project.

[rjsparks]

Is this specific to the dev container, or to the bs5 branch?
For native install, most of these things do land in (project-root)/tmp, except for one which (bizarrely) ends up at env/tmp-storage-meetinghosttests-dir.

[jennifer-richards]

I'm not sure. Other than the two mentioned in #3520, I hadn't noticed it before but I probably had disabled the "add external files" alert. I don't think it's specific to the bs5 branch but perhaps the dev container because I've done most of my work there. I'll try it over here with a native install.

[jennifer-richards]

On my native install with a virtual env, they end up in venv/tmp-*, which is better (the venv/ directory is already excluded) so it just seems to be the dev container.

[jennifer-richards]

Oh- except that tmp-nomcom-public-keys-dir is created in the project root even after everything else is in venv/

[rjsparks]

I think this is OBE - reopen if it is not.