On 2/7/11 9:50 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > My suggestion, as I said to fosdem, is to freeze, or take a > snapshot if you like, of the current tree, stabilize what you need to > stabilize, test the whole tree ( at least compile wise ) for a couple of > weeks and then replace the existing stable tree. Of course this requires > automated script testing, hardware facilities etc etc that we don't have > so claiming that stable tree is "stable" is quite wrong.
This more thorough testing sounds really interesting. But do we really lack hardware resources? There are machines available for various arches at <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/infrastructure/dev-machines.xml>. I have at least a few chromium-related chroots on miranda, and I've never heard complaints, so it seems a few more chroots for arch testing wouldn't hurt. Of course for testing bootability and whether X11 starts up correctly, etc we'd probably have to host some virtual machines, but better compile testing (for example for toolchain updates) would be a good start. Paweł
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