On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:31:28PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:17:51PM -0400, Christopher Linn wrote: > > i am curious. how many platforms does zmanda have and use for > > test builds and amanda testing? OSs and hardware? > > One of my current projects is to put a more thorough testing process in > place -- mostly because it's been *my* patches which have turned out to > be non-portable! > > For the community version, we currently focus our testing on the > platforms listed on http://zmanda.com/downloads.html: RHEL 3-5, FC 3-6, > OpenSUSE 10, SLES 9-10, and Windows (cygwin). That testing takes place > on releases, *not* on the snapshots. The bug which started this thread > was in last night's snapshot. > > For other platforms, we rely on users to test betas, since the Amanda > user community has a much wider array of hardware and configurations > than we could *ever* hope to test in-house. > > I have a few nascent ideas of how we could improve this process, but I > would prefer to hear others' suggestions and proposals before I bias the > conversation with my thoughts. > > Dustin > > P.S. As for hardware -- well, virtualization is a wonderful thing ;)
ok, thanks alot. cheers.. chris -- Christopher Linn <celinn at mtu.edu> | By no means shall either the CEC System Administrator II | or MTU be held in any way liable Center for Experimental Computation | for any opinions or conjecture I Michigan Technological University | hold to or imply to hold herein.