On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'll ask a related question. What can we do to help maintainers more effectively catch hold of brown bag issues for their untested packages?
I've read the discussion from Richard Jones which regard to how virtualization plays a role for libguestfs dev and how they are using using %check section and catching problems. I think there is a lot there to mull over.
I've also used Kevin's rawhide instance to do pre-rawhide submission package testing on occasion when I had reason to believe my (admittedly non-critical path) packages might be be a bit wonky across an upstream release bump or something.
So with all that in mind, does Fedora as a project have the ability/resources to make the use of throw-away virtual instance for pre-submission testing available as part of best practice rawhide workflow? Would wide spread use of virtualized rawhide help bridge a gap?
-jef
In some cases, expectations may be off which means we need to market
our deliverables better. In other cases, they may be looking for a
better way to get attention to rawhide issues when everyone else is
focused on F-XX-beta. In that case we can look at a mechanism that
allows for less "zero-sum" game antics of elementary school yard "you
suck, no you suck more" that the threads head towards.
I'll ask a related question. What can we do to help maintainers more effectively catch hold of brown bag issues for their untested packages?
I've read the discussion from Richard Jones which regard to how virtualization plays a role for libguestfs dev and how they are using using %check section and catching problems. I think there is a lot there to mull over.
I've also used Kevin's rawhide instance to do pre-rawhide submission package testing on occasion when I had reason to believe my (admittedly non-critical path) packages might be be a bit wonky across an upstream release bump or something.
So with all that in mind, does Fedora as a project have the ability/resources to make the use of throw-away virtual instance for pre-submission testing available as part of best practice rawhide workflow? Would wide spread use of virtualized rawhide help bridge a gap?
-jef
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