Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:27:19 +0200 From: "Fischer, Oliver" <plexus@snafu.de> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@adept.org> Cc: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net>, FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd test matrix Message-ID: <3DB3C877.7080904@snafu.de> References: <20021018134020.D8827-100000@fubar.adept.org>
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Sorry for my very late answer, I had to do some assigments for my university. Mike Hoskins wrote: > Clearly, this process indicates developers should write test cases for > their code... Unfortuneately, the last thing an opensource project needs > is more work for the developers. :) Yes, I know this argument but I think it isn't true. Only the start is hard but if you have a working test system you are much more flexible because you are not afraid that changes can break the system and you don't realize it. I know this from my own projects. Often little changes here broke code there. :-( > Of course it would be nice to someday have a fully automated, robust > test/stress setup for builds... That will involve a lot of work from > build/QA people and developers. So, in the meantime, what can we do to > provide a resource that is immediately available, and serves to gather > initiative for future projects? It needs even a lot of time to develop such a testsystem. It must be flexible, extensible, modular AND fast. I guess I needs some months to reach a state, that other people could integrate their stuff. > provide a resource that is immediately available, and serves to gather > initiative for future projects? > Would a site that simply let people post hardware specs, kernel configs, > dmesg output, debugging info, etc. be useful? I think maintaining a > searchable, user-supported database of build results would be a useful > first step toward something much larger. Ja, that is a good idea. Any concreate ideas how to do it? I would take part in it. BYe Oliver To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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