Hi! On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 at 08:22, Otto Kekäläinen <o...@debian.org> wrote: > > Hello! > > (Stop reading if you don't use MariaDB) > > I am currently preparing the upload of MariaDB 10.11.2-2 to Debian > unstable and aim for the highest possible quality. I am currently > doing the bulk of the testing and packaging alone and to make sure > that the quality is top notch, I would be glad to see more people > contribute. > > If you have time to help, please consider these (in order of importance): > > 1. Review current open MRs at > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests > > 2. Review items highlighted by Debian QA systems (Lintian, builds etc) > and submit a fix to improve the quality: > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mariadb > > 3. Review what testing we have at > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/pipelines and > think about potential gaps - CI is very important as it is the only > way we can prevent regressions in a scalable way > > 4. Review/follow-up on existing bugs that currently need more > information: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?repeatmerged=no&src=mariadb&src=mariadb-10.6&src=mariadb-10.5&src=mariadb-10.3&src=mariadb-10.1 > > MariaDB and C++ skills are useful, but not required. For example > reviewing the NEWS for 10.11 requires no coding skills: > https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/37
One more items I am requesting help with: 5. If you know C/C++ compatibility on armhf and care about e.g. Raspberry PI your help would be very useful. Upstream does not test/target armhf and there are many minor places in upstream code that would need some armhf tweaks. You could for example install the mariadb-test package and run the full upstream test suite with 7227 tests and see which ones currently break on armhf (details in https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/grokking-mariadb-test-run-mtr/). - Otto
