On 04/12/2011 12:46 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:
If you have a way to do those predictive tests, in serial or parallel, I'm sure that would be a valuable contribution. The possible combinations quickly lead to a combinatorial explosion.
Quite a large part of the functional tests can be automated - specially if there are going to be 100's of people offering them up. Wihtout a doubt we need more of those.
I think the best a community project can do on testing such packages is by flagging them for attention in a more open process with more testers.
Testers are one part of the equation, what we need more of, imho, is more people in a position to do things before packages hit the testers. Hence, the request for people to step up with relevant experience and exposure to specific parts of the distro.
- KB