[SM-Discuss] stable-rc testing
Eric Sandall
eric at sandall.us
Wed Sep 10 04:57:42 EDT 2008
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 21:35:57 +0200
Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for people helping with the stable-rc testing. As it has
> been for a long time, usually the one shepherding the release also
> does most of the checking. Checking a few spells is not much work, but
> checking the whole list[0] for open bugs is quite exhausting. It
> simply doesn't scale if only one person does the job, and since we
> eventually want to extend this list to more interesting stuff like X,
> GNOME, KDE, we really have to distribute this among several people.
> I have already verified that all spells on the list cast fine, so only
> the bug search remains. If you have a few minutes of spare time, just
> search bugzilla for some remaining spells and note any major bug (i.e.
> no "file installed by several spells" and other things that don't
> affect actual functioning of the spell) in the last column, along
> with whether you consider it gating (gating is mostly for major bugs
> that are new, so didn't exist in the previous stable).
> I will do the rest in the next couple of days, but I'd like to kick
> of a bit more distribution of this work now, so we can eventually add
> more spells to the list, to improve the quality of our stable
> releases. Thanks for your attention ;)
>
> [0] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Stable-0.25
I have a test update from a few stable releases ago to stable-rc going
on the dkowismobile and will do updates of what I find with that. ;)
-sandalle
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