On 12/03/2016 05:31 PM, 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? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> 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. >
Depends on what you want to test. I guess openQA would be a very good solution if you want to test a snapshot of the tree against the most common scenarios for example - todays snapshot with plasma5 - todays snapshot with gnome3 - todays snapsnot with lxqt - ... - todays snapshot with a few tests against popular console packages * can gcc build small C test files? * does bash work? * does coreutils popular tools work as expected? Having such scenarios in place is probably a more realistic testing approach than simply build everything with random USE flags just for the sake of build coverage. -- Regards, Markos Chandras
