Re: flavors for testing packages by testing team

[Bruno Conde <blconde@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi to all,

This is my first message here in the list, and I don't know for sure how it works, but here it goes my observations to Rohit's e-mail:

I could test this kind of "test live cd" if someone make it, but I think the issue here is to fill the reports and whole testing environment; I didn't know it, and I'm pleased to know you folks are working on this. Sure I can help sending this kind of information.

About about the repositories, here's another suggestion: what about we focus on testing a few packages besides the core packages, the popular ones just like Rohit said, and leave the other to a community repo, as Debian's Contrib or Ubuntu's Community? I believe the "popular packages list" would be something like: Abiword, Gnumeric, OpenOffice, Firefox, Pidgin, some e-mail client (I deeply prefer Thunderbird than Sylpheed/Claws), MPlayer and/or GXine, Gimp and maybe others I'm forgetting.

And all these bring me to procedure question: what is the best way to quickly point out a problem, go straight report a bug to 
http://labs.slitaz.org/issues or first post a thread in the forum? Because I asked myself about it when I posted this: http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/1081/translation-for-abiword-gnumeric-pidgin-and-others/

Att..,

BC



---- On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:11:50 -0300 Rohit Joshi <rj.rohit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote ---- 

> Hi all, 
>  
> Claudinei and Linea are working towards creating a testing environment 
> for better quality management (http://labs.slitaz.org/wiki/packages). 
> Many people have shown interest in joining testing teams. But it seems 
> very few people contributed the test reports. 
>  
> I think its a good effort but maybe we need to make it easier for 
> people to test. I personally do not like people criticizing SliTaz 
> devs over the forums that such an such thing have not been fixed for 
> over an year. 
>  
> Pascal has recently announced a flavor contest 
> (http://mirror.slitaz.org/pizza/). All official flavors 
> (http://hg.slitaz.org/flavors/) can be automatically generated by 
> anyone within minutes. 
>  
> So, maybe we simply create few 650MB testing flavors for each package 
> category (or probably just with popular packages). I believe  such 
> large flavors can be generated based on low-ram / 3-in-1 flavor ( but 
> haven't really tested this theory myself). 
>  
> I feel testing packages on liveCD is much easier.  Furthermore, we can 
> generate a new testCD with any given snapshot of cooking repos. 
>  
> One of the downside, however, is that this will not address all the 
> dependency issues that may happen on SliTaz Core CD. But, atleast , 
> this may help to catch the problems faster. Moreover, we already have 
> implemented automatic dependency checking. 
>  
> I look forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions. 
>  
> Thanks 
>  
> Rohit 
>  
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