On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:07:24PM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 10:24 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > This is reasonably easy to fix: we should do some testing and withhold > > packages from Rawhide if they don't pass some basic sanity checks > > (eg. does it boot, can an X server be started). > > That's basically the proven testers process, which at present is running > around capacity trying to cover three releases (two current stable, plus > Branched). I'm really not sure we could manage another release, > especially one like Rawhide where people have a right to expect updates > to land quickly. I really meant automated tests. At the moment when I build libguestfs is when I find many kernel and qemu bugs, because that is the first time that anyone has tried to actually run the things. (Unfortunately at the moment I have had to turn this testing off for Rawhide because of a fatal kernel bug that no one has acknowleged -- 630777). This testing is completely automatic and happens in Koji as part of the %check section of the build. We run the kernel/qemu/userspace combination together and subject them to about an hour of stress-testing. All I'm saying is, run these automated tests and fail the build if the %check section fails. For extra marks, fix the bugs that are found. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
