[CentOS-devel] what / how could test reports be published

Fri Apr 8 21:25:18 UTC 2011
Charlie Brady <charlieb-centos-devel at budge.apana.org.au>

On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> On 04/07/2011 05:35 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > What sort of test would SL binaries fail that would keep them from being
> > accepted in CentOS?  Isn't that the kind of problem that has to be
> > solved to speed up a release?
> 
> No, the two things are orthogonal. Assurance that a package does what it 
> says its going to do is something that needs to be addressed 

I don't think so. I think that is upstream's problem. We need assurance 
that what is produced is functionally the same as what upstream produces 
(except for the very few areas where CentOS functionality differs).

> - not directly connected to what the input to the testing harness is or 
>   what comes out from the other end.