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On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:55:11 +0100 |
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"Marcus D. Hanwell" <cryos@g.o> wrote: |
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> I am also a member of the amd64 porting team, where we have |
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> several architecture testers (ATs) who assist in necessary testing |
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> and bug fixing for amd64 porting activities. I thought that a |
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> similar approach may be helpful in the scientific herd as many of |
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> our applications tend to be quite complex and difficult to test |
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> for people outside of the intended field(s). |
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> The amd64 team has a page[2] with details on ATs, and I plan to |
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> make a similar page for herd testers (HTs) in the future. So far |
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> we have just got one herd tester and several others interested. |
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> There is also a GLEP 41[3] awaiting approval on making ATs |
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> official Gentoo staff, and this will also be extended to herd |
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> testers. |
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Speaking of ATs, will we have enough arches covered within this HT |
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group? I can only do sparc and x86, and there are several ebuilds I |
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can think of that need some work on other arches. I've used both |
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bugzilla and the direct bugging method, but it seems like we could |
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use something in addition to that (exactly what, I'm not sure). |
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Maybe I'm just too far outside the loop on stuff; how do we |
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coordinate the arch component of this new overlay? Do we get an |
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overlay on more than one arch? Or? |
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Just curious... |
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[snip] |
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> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.science/295 |
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> [2] |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/tests/index.xml?part=1&chap=1 |
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> [3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0041.html |
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Steve aka nerdboy |
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Steve Arnold http://arnolds.dhs.org/ |
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