RE: testing testing (was: Implementing testing)

[Tom Musgrove]

I brought up the subject of an automatic testing/bug-reporting suite on
Gnome-Dev the other day, and, according to Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tinderbox http://www.mozilla.org/tinderbox.html can be configured to do a
lot of the automatic testing that I proposed.

Here is his reply

There's a tool called Tinderbox that would do this. It's a good
idea. What we would need to set it up would simply be a spare computer
(easy) and someone to do quite a bit of work maintaining it
(hard). Given that we don't have enough people doing stuff like web
site maintenance, though, I wouldn't get your hopes up.

Havoc

So what I'm curious about, is what sort of maintenance is necessary, and how
the maintenance time grows with the number of projects.

If the growth is significantly less than linear (which I suspect it will be)
then we could probably find a maintainer, and run all of the projects for
Gnome, Debian, RedHat, KDE, etc.

When I have more info, I'll everyone know,

Tom M.
LetterRip
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


PS - Ola, I attempted to reply to your [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] accounts, and they all bounced.

Re: testing testing (was: Implementing testing)

[Thomas]

Ola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote The big problem is as I see it, to
implement it.  I'm not familiar with the background work that the server
do so I'm not the right person ot do it, I think.  Are you willing to
implement such a system?

I will try some experimentation on a local system, and see if I can get
a proof of concept project running.  I'm fairly sure that I'm not the
right person to do it as well, but at worst I'll have just wasted some
hours finding that out...

Tom M.
LetterRip
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

(Sorry for the delayed reply, although I subscribed to debian-devel, I'm
apparently not getting any mail from it...)