On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 16:58 +0100, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > 2014-02-26 14:11 GMT+01:00 Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxx>: > The *very first* test I run is "does the OS still boot"? > That's called "smoketest" for me, and it only takes a few > minutes. > > > That seems to be optimizing for bugs that break the boot, when bugs > that occur in less-frequently used parts of the system are far more > common; a lot of software is not used, or not critical, in the boot > path. It is optimizing for answering the most important question first, which is: Can I tag this build / push this to the thousands of developers and testers which be blocked from testing the less-frequently used parts of the system if their system doesn't boot anymore after the upgrade. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
