On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:16 -0400, John Poelstra wrote: > Rawhide serves several purposes in Fedora and yet I don't think we > clearly delineate what they are. > Take a step back and consider what a strange testing target rawhide is: Rawhide is a good place (along with update-testing) to check the progress of bugs oneself has submitted. > 6) The community at large > seems to focus more on the Alpha, Beta, and Preview releases as > evidenced by spikes in traffic on fedora-test-list after these releases. It's tangible you can put your hands on it, and run it (livecd) without damaging stable system. Which for most users is a good thing. > > 7) We consider rawhide our primary testing target yet there is no > practical way to create a test matrix around it because it changes every > day. Instead we create test matrices for the Alpha, Beta, and Preview > releases which..... see the previous point. How do we know when we have > completed a full test run? How can you thoroughly test a moving target? Maybe reduce rawhide release(s) to weekly and date? eg: yum-3.2.16-2.fc9.061608.noarch.rpm So more testing can be accomplished Frank -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
