On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 14:23 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 19:42 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > > Though with enough money, you could automate those too, with the use of > > some cameras and video capture hardware, or for more $$$ high speed > > digital sampling hardware... Get a hardware hacker to instrument the > > laptop's backlight... > > > > How much is stability worth to Red Hat Inc? > > OK, reality check here: the Fedora QA department paid by Red Hat is a > small handful of folks with a smattering of machines - we've got quite a > few, but not endless vast caverns of them - and a fairly limited budget. > Your ideas are neat but the Fedora QA department is a considerably long > way away from having the resources to implement them. > > Right now the test days are planned and arranged mostly by myself and/or > James Laska in, oh, maybe ten to twelve hours of total time for > arranging each one. We couldn't easily dedicate much more time than that > to arranging the test days, so any proposals for improving them need to > fit into that kind of time frame. > > Or, of course - to take the standard Fedora developer tack - you could > do it yourself, and send the patches. :) i'm +1 on automated testing wherever possible. is there an existing project/SIG dedicated to coordinating community effort to create those patches? i'm imagining something that would end up being a set of distro- (and possibly OS-) independent tools and procedures. i love the test days - big thanks for those. unfortunately i've not managed to contribute to one yet - just too busy. :-( > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org > http://www.happyassassin.net > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
