I am indeed interested in helping to establish this kind of infrastructure and I think I could reallocate some time to help with that effort. But, that would only make sense, if Mageia would adopt and use the system at the end - if it proves to be useful. Do you think that would be the case? What would be the next step? Is there some way to express a formal proposal?
2013/1/10 Guillaume Rousse <[email protected]> > Le 10/01/2013 14:18, Jochen Breuer a écrit : > > Thanks Guillame. I wasn't aware of this and did not manage to find that >> in the wiki. I thought the only tests performed where RPM lint checks, >> manual checks by the QA and some undefined checks by the maintainers. >> >> Anyhow, I assume the 'make test' is performed on the build server. Your >> experiences might prove me wrong, but wouldn't it be better to perform >> tests on a different installation? >> > Probably, indeed, because the environment would be closer to an actual > usage environment. But this is hardly measurable. > > And you have to balance the added value of those additional tests with the > manpower needed to setup a new test infrastructure, integrate it with > current build system, and maintain it... I heard the sysadmin team was > looking for volonteers, if you're interested :P > > -- > BOFH excuse #174: > > Backbone adjustment >
