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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:27 PM Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> There are some QA/CI tools out there that have substantially improved |
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> the quality of the distro, and most of them have started out as one |
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> dev just creating a tinderbox or whatever and filing bugs when they |
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> see problems. The only real downside to this is if somebody quits we |
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> might lose these tools - but there are efforts to host them on infra |
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> once we start to treat them as part of the core experience. When they |
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> start out they're just one dev's random contributions and they may or |
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> may not persist. |
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Speaking of tinderboxes: |
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Is there any kind of QA tool that normal end users can contribute CPU |
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cycles to? Given the massive combinatorial explosion of package |
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configurations that can be installed using Gentoo, one might imagine that |
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there's some value in simply installing programs with different USE |
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combinations and running the self-tests for those programs. |
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What I don't want to do is anything manual. Be it filing bugs, or testing |
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things. |
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But I'd be happy to run some arbitrary QA tool in a virtual machine or |
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chroot nearly indefinitely. |
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