On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:16:46AM -0400, John Poelstra wrote: > Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don't think we clearly > delineate what they are. It is often said in Fedoraland that the best way > to test the Feodora is to "run rawhide." There is a difference between > installing and running rawhide to experience the absolute latest and > greatest Fedora has to offer and intentionally testing it. I just think we > need to be clearer about our approach and use of rawhide for testing > (specific QA) because sometimes it doesn't make sense. [...] > 4) You never know when it will install or not. It isn't smoke tested--we > leave that for *everyone* to do themselves based on their own install > attempt. Even if Fedora hosted an automated smoke test to determine if it > installs you still have the problem of mirrors being out of sync and not > knowing if what you have is the exact same group of packages that passed > the smoke test. Still, doing automated installs is something that's possible to do and a good testing tool. Regards, R. -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
