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On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:02:36PM +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: |
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> On 2/7/11 9:50 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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> > My suggestion, as I said to fosdem, is to freeze, or take a |
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> > snapshot if you like, of the current tree, stabilize what you need to |
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> > stabilize, test the whole tree ( at least compile wise ) for a couple of |
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> > weeks and then replace the existing stable tree. Of course this requires |
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> > automated script testing, hardware facilities etc etc that we don't have |
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> > so claiming that stable tree is "stable" is quite wrong. |
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> This more thorough testing sounds really interesting. But do we really |
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> lack hardware resources? |
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Yes! |
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> There are machines available for various arches at |
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> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml>. I have |
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> at least a few chromium-related chroots on miranda, and I've never heard |
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> complaints, so it seems a few more chroots for arch testing wouldn't hurt. |
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No. Miranda, in particular, can go down anytime soon. This is what infra |
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told me twice. |
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> Of course for testing bootability and whether X11 starts up correctly, |
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> etc we'd probably have to host some virtual machines, but better compile |
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> testing (for example for toolchain updates) would be a good start. |
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> Paweł |
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Lets move this conversation on the thread that Tim started earlier |
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today. Seems like there is some hardware available for us on OSUOSL |
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Regards, |
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