on 13/11/2010 21:25 Mark Linimon said the following: > There's this whole "testing" thing :-)
So, I thought taht I contributed one test report already :-) > xorg seems to have an amazing ability to introduce regressions, especially > in edge cases/older hardware. Each of the last N updates has been preceded > by a lot of staging/testing, and even so, created a lot of work to clean > everything up. I think that you refer to upgrades of the "Xorg bundle" as a whole. Not sure if we've had any problems like that when upgrading between minor versions of a single module, even such as xorg server. > So, in theory, it's easy, but in practice, it requires someone(s) with a lot > of time and dedication. > > We certainly need one or more such people right now! I agree, but I am not sure how in the ports land we do an application testing in general. That is, I am sure there will be a lot of testers if the port update is actually committed :-) but I am not sure how to test it in advance (given all the possible hardware and software configurations). -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"