isab...@riseup.net writes: > Hello Tor community! > > The Core Tor Team would like to improve our release process by getting > it more tested so bugs are found earlier, so stable releases can get out > faster and without any big bugs. > > During Tor's Meeting in Seattle a couple of weeks ago, we discussed this > topic and decided to organize a QA team (with the help of the community) > for core tor. > > So we decided to make a call for volunteers to help us with testing our > 0.2.9 release so we can catch bugs asap. We are planning on freezing our > alpha release this Monday, October 17th, the test period is from 17-31 > of October. [release calendar: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam#Releases > ] >
> What we are asking volunteers: > > * Validate release signature/checksum > > * Does it build with _no_ Warnings? > > * Does "make test" pass? > > * Does "make test-network-all" pass? (you'll need chutney for this - > chutney does not work on Windows) > > * Does it work as a client? As a relay? As a hidden service ? > > * Does it work if you drop the binary into (eg) torpbrowser? > Do all these task have to apply to make the test valid/useful for you? On one of my test systems - I contribute to Guix - there is no chance of a (system-specific, unofficial) torbrowser build so far (but I/we keep looking into this). So long story short, I can run tests on some amd64_x86 based gnu-systems, but on one of them I need to exclude torbrowser. > > Please let us know if you have any questions about this - and thank you > in advance. > > Cheers, > > Isabela / on behalf of core tor > > ps: email from Nick on 0.2.9 freeze dates if you miss it > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2016-October/011513.html > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev -- ng0 _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
