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On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 22:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> Not gonna happen. Emulators don't cut it and won't find all the problems |
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> (but they will find a load of other bogus non-issues). Plus, from |
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> experience I'd say that at least half our devs wouldn't have a clue |
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> where to start when doing arch testing... |
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Add this HOWTO arch test to your developer docs. Very nice by the way. |
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> Then there's the issue of most alt-archs having far higher QA standards |
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> than x86 anyway, and us not wanting to sink to what x86 considers |
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> acceptable for marking stable. |
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> From experience -- the current policy as it is now *works*, so long as |
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> everyone follows it. |
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And as long as ciaranm, or someone from a non x86 arch bitches once a |
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month here. |
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Tom Wesley <tom@×××××.org> |
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