[CentOS-devel] progress?
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.comMon Feb 21 03:22:09 UTC 2011
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On 2/20/11 8:51 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > But instead, what happens is someone builds the RPMs ... puts it in > their blog. All their buddies download it. The build requirements are > broken and it causes bugs. A month later, we get them logging in to the > forums or the mailing lists or IRC with the broken packages that have > the same EVR numbers as ours and don't get replaced by the real packages > and it is a bad experience for everyone. That seems very, very unlikely from people who won't use the available SL betas. > Or, we have thousands of users with varying levels of capability, some > of which are very knowledgeable and would produce data that helps us a > lot. Pick a percentage of people where that data is good ... 1%, 10%, > 20%, 30% ... the rest of the data is incorrect. How long does it take > us to verify that the data is correct or incorrect and how does that > compare to the time spent if we just build it and test it? If you have a tool that can verify correctness, how can having a larger farm of brute force builds and tests, and submissions of reproducible recipes for the correct ones not speed things up? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
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