On Fri, 2019-02-08 at 10:44 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > Hi QA team, > > I had a conversation with someone at FOSDEM last weekend about the > hardware tests we run. They like the Arm list (I assume they meant > [1]), but wanted to see a list of hardware for x86_64 and other > hardware. > > Do we have something like that? If so, I couldn't find it easily. If > not, that might be something folks would be interested in. Maybe it > would be a good first step toward moving some QA docs to docs.fp.o > (/me ducks) No, we don't. The existence of the list for ARM is kind of a symptom of the fact that there just aren't that many different ARM devices available - especially the types of developer boards which are/were the focus of the ARM SIG's work. So it's feasible to maintain a list of the specific ones that we formally support. It's important to note this isn't just something the QA team made up, it's actually something the *ARM* team chose, and denotes the platforms they actually put their work into. This is an approach that works; it'd be less useful for QA to just arbitrarily define a list of x86_64 hardware we Care A Lot about, because for it to mean much, it requires buy-in from the folks doing the actual enablement work. If we do a lot of testing on some specific hardware, but that means we find lots of bugs that don't really get fixed by the HW enablement folks with any particular priority, then all we gained is the knowledge that "hey, Fedora sure is broken on this hardware!" It is rather less practical to do this for x86_64 because there's basically an infinite range of hardware out there, and what we test on is just "whatever people in the QA team happen to have to hand". We could make a list of what that is at any given point in time, but I suspect it'd be pretty prone to bitrot. I believe there's some kind of laptop initiative under way which may involve denoting specific laptop models as somehow a priority for support, but that's a wider initiative than just the QA team, and I don't know its current status. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
