Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests

2007-03-01 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:41:25AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Well, what I'm looking for is: > > [A] People with good ideas of tests that would improve Debian's > quality, or Free Software's quality in general > > [B] People willing to help with providing code for the tests, and > pro

Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests

2007-03-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:27:54PM +0100, Filippo Giunchedi wrote: > how about testing automatic dist-upgrades like stable->testing? I love this idea: as a maintainer is quite a burden to take care of this, a massive testing effort would help a lot of DDs out there! > of course this is not trivia

automatic testing of dist-upgrades (was: Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests)

2007-03-01 Thread Filippo Giunchedi
[opening a new thread, since it was the original idea] On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:59:59PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm more worried about how you choose the environment you want to > dist-upgrade. Various criteria that come to my mind (braindump): > - base system only (pro: easy to set u

Re: Ideas for additional large scale tests

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 02:59:59PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > I'm more worried about how you choose the environment you want to > dist-upgrade. Various criteria that come to my mind (braindump): > - base system only (pro: easy to set up, cons: tests a too small set of > package) > - \fora