From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 16 12:28:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D706737B404 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:28:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fubar.adept.org (fubar.adept.org [63.147.172.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BFE43ED8 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@adept.org) Received: by fubar.adept.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 53EE415247; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fubar.adept.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B9515226; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:28:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Hoskins To: "Fischer, Oliver" Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd test matrix In-Reply-To: <3DAD22B9.2090801@snafu.de> Message-ID: <20021016122349.F4295-100000@fubar.adept.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Fischer, Oliver wrote: > Having such a beast would be perfect. But a lot of problems are > involved: Such a tool must be developed or adapted and maintained. And > collecting data in such a way is not enough. You need a good and easy to > understand reporting tool. And at least you need volunteers which have > hardware and time and are willing to share such resources. Agreed. Although, many of these challenges face any "open" project (or any sort of mass coordinated development). > A small step in this direction of 'continious integration' could be the > use of mozillas thinderbox. I think it would be a great step forward. Anyone using tinderbox already? This is my first time seeing it, have to RTFM a bit more. > BTW, are the any tests for the base system to check what all tools works > properly? That's what I was wondering... Is the 'proper' way to test a given machine to simply cvsup and build a world as usual... Then observe results. Or is there some 'test harness' where you can 'make test' and see a summary of build results? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message