Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:35:29 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 Message-ID: <4CDEE881.201@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20101113192506.GC29660@lonesome.com> References: <4CD7C15D.2010203@icyb.net.ua> <20101108150306.GB17517@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <4CD8132D.9090902@icyb.net.ua> <20101113192506.GC29660@lonesome.com>
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on 13/11/2010 21:25 Mark Linimon said the following: > There's this whole "testing" thing :-) So, I thought taht I contributed one test report already :-) > xorg seems to have an amazing ability to introduce regressions, especially > in edge cases/older hardware. Each of the last N updates has been preceded > by a lot of staging/testing, and even so, created a lot of work to clean > everything up. I think that you refer to upgrades of the "Xorg bundle" as a whole. Not sure if we've had any problems like that when upgrading between minor versions of a single module, even such as xorg server. > So, in theory, it's easy, but in practice, it requires someone(s) with a lot > of time and dedication. > > We certainly need one or more such people right now! I agree, but I am not sure how in the ports land we do an application testing in general. That is, I am sure there will be a lot of testers if the port update is actually committed :-) but I am not sure how to test it in advance (given all the possible hardware and software configurations). -- Andriy Gapon
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