On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 10:02:36PM +0100, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > 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? > Yes! > 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. > No. Miranda, in particular, can go down anytime soon. This is what infra told me twice.
> 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 > Lets move this conversation on the thread that Tim started earlier today. Seems like there is some hardware available for us on OSUOSL Regards, -- Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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