Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:26:26 -0800 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: mjacob@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Testing Facility Message-ID: <CAOgwaMvFjt%2B19%2BvUT9Amjp3d0GGftkxrZ3FWUc-X=L1ZSm3pEg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51263782.3020205@freebsd.org> References: <CAOgwaMsbupU0NB7TA6RMJW0erWBGwcsGO16xt3GPLsPuh-rpRA@mail.gmail.com> <51263782.3020205@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2/21/2013 5:04 AM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > >> Dear All , >> >> During development of FreeBSD , testing is very vital . >> ... >> > > This in general is a good suggestion. Most companies do such automated > testing as a matter of course. > > Note however that this is a volunteer effort. Were you volunteering to set > up such an automated, possibly testzilla driven, facility? It would > certainly help the quality, although as others have noted snapshots are > often likely to be broken. > I am not able to design , implement and manage such a facility ( most important problem is health ) , but as an individual I want to participate to testing as much as I can . In the source tree , there are testing software . There are other testing sites . By cosolidating them as a distributed testing facility will help making FreeBSD much more robust and increase development speed . My idea is that a wide testing applicators may resolve many problems at the beginning . All the people which are trying snapshots or are using current developments will likely participate such a testing community and produce results in a structured and cooperative way . For example , assume a component for boot up to login ( included ) is modified . Instead of preparing a many hundred mega bytes complete snapshot , only a small boot only snapshot may be prepared and presented to testers . After verifying that the boot process is correct , the more complete snapshots may be prepared . In that way , time and money will not be wasted by including unnecessary parts . Please , consider each component in that way . At present , many tools are already present in the ports tree . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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