On Sat, 3 Dec 2016, Michał Górny wrote:
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 13:13:36 +0000
Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
On 12/03/2016 10:41 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
On Sat, 3 Dec 2016 10:35:32 +0100
Patrice Clement <monsie...@gentoo.org> wrote:
Friday 02 Dec 2016 14:10:27, Michał Górny wrote :
Hi, everyone.
I've heard multiple times about various tinderbox projects being
started by individuals in Gentoo. In fact, so many different projects
that I've forgotten who was working on most of them.
I know that Toralf is doing tinderboxing for most of the stuff.
What other projects do we have there? What is their status?
Is there anything we could try to integrate with pull requests to get
a better testing?
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Best regards,
Michał Górny
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
Continuous integration is all the rage these days and tinderboxing is the
obvious way to go concerning Gentoo. AFAIK, Toralf is the only contributor
doing tinderboxing out of his own will. In reality, we should have a team of
devs looking after our own tinderboxes instead of relying on the community.
I'm wondering if we could start a donation campain for this project and ask
people if they've got spare machines laying around. I know a lot of folks are
reading this mailing list so maybe asking on gentoo-dev first for a start would
be appropriate.
Hardware is not the problem. Lack of software is.
Have you considered using openQA[1] like openSUSE[2] and Fedora[3] do
instead of reinventing the wheel?
[1] http://open.qa/
[2] https://openqa.opensuse.org/
[3] https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/
Do you by any chance happen to know how it maps to our needs?
At a first glance it seems quite tangential.
Last time I looked at it, a few years ago at FOSDEM, one issue to me, at
least for testing release builds, was that it relied on fingerprint of
images and time delays. To me it would make more sense to get a "console"
and grep the output for relevant strings.
I don't know if / how it evolved, so this might no longer be true.
Regards,
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
Gentoo Developer
