How much are you willing to pay for this piece of bespoke software? /M On 07/02/11 22:52, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > Hi, > for Arch releng, we have recently started automatically building test builds > (http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/). These images are built from the archiso and aif git repositories, and the current state of the repos. > > The idea is that people can test these images, and once in a while, I will promote a set of testbuilds and make them the officially supported media. > Because everything evolves all the time, a lot of different things can cause regressions or new bugs, > but at the same time it would be too much work to try to test all possible scenarios for each specific testbuild version. > > So I would like a web application that gives me "a pretty good idea" of the quality of current/recent images. > I request someone other then me to make this app for me, I do not have the time. (I do have time for feedback or making adjustments to the codebase you provide) > I'm not sure which is best, php or python, or whatever. I think both will be fine (Dan? Pierre?) > > Basically it would have 2 modes: > > 1) the "input" mode (after logging in with your wiki or forum account, not sure what's best here. Dan?): > the user would select a version (maintain a cached list of the directories at > http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ > the format will always be YYYY.MM.DD[suffix]) > and select a list of options which are verified to be working fine. > that is: > (between braces are additional instructions for the user) > > = image arch = > * dual, option i686 > * dual, option x86_64 > * i686 > * x86_64 > > = image type = > * core > * net > > = image boot = > * optical > * usb > * pxe > > = hardware type = > * virtualbox > * qemu > * physical intel i686 > * physical intel x86_64 > * physical amd i686 > * physical amd x86_64 > > = install type = > * automatic install generic example > * automatic install fancy example > * automatic install custom config (specify in comments) > * interactive install > > = source selection = > * net install manual networking config (check that it works + rc.conf, resolv.conf, mirrorlist) > * net install dhcp (check that it works + rc.conf) > * core > > = clock = > * left as is > * reconfigured manually > * reconfigured ntp > > = partitioning/filesystems = > * autoprepare (check the installed system, incl fstab) > * manual > * from config file > > = fancy stuff (checklist, not selection) = > * lvm2 > * dm_crypt > * softraid > * nilfs2 > * btrfs > (check also fstab, menu.lst, initcpio.conf and crypttab > if appropriate) > > = rollback tested = > * yes > * no > > = if rollback done, another partitioning/filesystems list and another "fancy stuff" list (same options as before) for after the rollback = > > = bootloader = > * grub > * syslinux > * other/manual > > = result = > * everything works fine > * something failed (elaborate in comments) > > = comments = > <textarea> > > > > Then, a second interface would need to represent the "current state of things.. (sort of)" > that is, for every important thing (like, all image arches, image types, image boots, install types, source selections, clock, partitioning/filesystems, fancy stuff, rollback tested, grub/syslinux bootloader) it needs to show the last recent tests (or the last images for which it worked), along with which user tested it. (note: not all combinations of all variables, just any test with the given variable). if there was any failed test for a specific feature for an as recent (or more recent) image then the last successful one, there should be a warning about that. > I'm not sure yet how exactly this page would look like, but basically I need to know all important features are tested with recent images, and that they all performed well. > > other factors (like hardware type, bootloader other/manual bootloader option) are not very important, they are more for reference. > > Thanks, > Dieter -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
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