On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:30 AM, Stephen Gallagher <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/21/2014 09:22 AM, Alexander Todorov wrote: >> Hi guys, (note: devel, packaging and test lists) previously I've >> done a little experiment and counted how many packages are likely >> to have upstream test suites and how many don't: >> http://atodorov.org/blog/2013/12/24/upstream-test-suite-status-of-fedora-20/ >> >> >> >> In general around 35% do have test suites, the rest don't. >> >> My goal is to bring down the number of packages which ship without >> any sort of test suite inside their code base. >> >> The first step is to identify them and track them in Bugzilla. >> >> >> My question is: **Is everyone, especially package maintainers OK >> with me filing 1000+ bugs ?** >> >> >> Last time I did so (around 100 bugs) it got a few people unhappy >> so better ask this time! >> >> If you are unhappy seeing such many bugs and having your mailbox >> full with notifications from Bugzilla please reply with a better >> proposal and why do you consider it better. >> >> >> Thanks, Alex > > > Please make sure to follow > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_bug_filing to the letter. If you > do not, it will make life very difficult. > > That being said, a lot of packages in Fedora are simply that: packaged > upstreams. Many (most?) package maintainers are not developers of that > package and as such are probably not equipped to add tests to their > systems. > > A better case here would be to find a way to identify those packages > whose upstreams have tests that are not being run in %check. That > probably *would* be considered a bug. Unless there's a decree from FESCo or FPC about requiring this, it's going to be up to the maintainer as to whether using %check to run testsuites is required. A lot of testsuites require external network access and won't work when run under koji. Also, it increases build time and can bloat BuildRequires. It is *not* a clear-cut bug. Personally, I don't think %check is a good idea at all. josh -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
