From owner-freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 17:07:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: testing@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1AA32163; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:07:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x230.google.com (mail-la0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 682652F09; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f48.google.com with SMTP id el20so6511543lab.35 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=UFBdicxDi6WH9o4QyTnTqrgUqm6bkxYXPvhmaJCUHVw=; b=FM7Vv7Ir27tqftU/QFsP0AI9n4mocOg9YegMYRhBMy5CQvCraMoPu74kqE0uHmf1pp qwxJHlhZGAjDqGwAAVM5p+OOWWpPJbpjHyqIuOhPVIKKx+6FxWEKQvRsC5FwBWH7Wtek 7LIa2+c2ZDz6dDhDI7I9Oay2sntpHK6PyGBccjV50/o3awq3mGxkme9E4HPpWJFMWbJs 6XV2AhPnYo4H0Y8rz3YKFAW7oN4TsWNna1hMKoYoWKJewbC0+GDCZ3EvkWWmNxXrIvt4 zLfPG1YuU2gwIxBVCSf6661fZcch0ZL4n0X5qAeQEW358p5bEzzDzjUeyqNe8dFOAFgx n42Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.34.110 with SMTP id y14mr6566246lbi.36.1405012057304; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.67.71 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:07:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <154F5C90-B0A5-41AD-ABBC-C7ECE1281D7D@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:07:37 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: iMXwwAWS_9CLuTrjaRl5gM_G_-c Message-ID: Subject: Re: A new way to test systems in multiple machine scenarios... From: Craig Rodrigues To: George Neville-Neil Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18 Cc: Garrett Cooper , "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" , net@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Testing on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:07:40 -0000 On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 8:21 AM, George Neville-Neil wrote: > This, actually, is the problem I found. Lots of folks have partial > solutions that are either proprietary, > internal, not read for prime time, not quite what we want, etc. etc. I > did get one private > response of another system to look at as well. > > I basically did this as a stake in the ground around which to build > something we could possibly move forwards > with. It's not a 100% solution but it's 80% of the solution to the > problem I run into 80% of the time. > You are absolutely right. Many companies have internal testing frameworks that are home-grown and proprietary. It's great for the individual company, but doesn't help people in the larger community. Since you put this stuff in github, I encourage folks to hack on the code and send pull requests to George to help improve it! -- Craig