2007/5/11, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
On 5/11/07, Alexander Baldeck <kth5@archlinuxppc.org> wrote:
Hey all,
as you may have noticed I picked up X.org from Jan to take some load off of his shoulders. I'm very proficient in doing the whole X.org thing since I've done so over a phase of like 3 years in a professional environment.
Then again, testing quickly became a problem. I can't possibly come up with all the hardware to actually more than just build-install-test most in x11-drivers. I would suggest that we assign TUs who have these chipsets as testers or even maintainers. We could even drive this further with other packages where we didn't do so yet:
* lirc * madwifi * wlan-ng
aso.
It would further go into the direction of packaging divisions and raise quality of our packages. Opinions? Ideas how this can be implemented without changing our system to much and everybody still being fine with it?
I like the idea of having a group of "testers" for hardware stuff.
To get the ball rolling, perhaps we could start a simple wiki page where a user can come in and list the hardware and arch packages they use that may be unique - we can figure out a plan of attack while gathering this data.
Yeah, I've brought this on some time ago too after finding that dead page on devwiki. Also, it will greatly help in cases when confirmation of a bug is needed.
For right now, I'd say lets only as TUs and devs for information, just to ensure some chain-of-command remains.
Here's a random idea (and part of the original reason too) - The "hidden" arch-commits list which tracks cvs commits can be used to track commits to the driver packages, and shoot off an email to the "testers" that a new version is in CVS. It'd be fairly easy to do, actually. I could throw something together (emails would come from my gmail though probably) pretty quickly if I'm thinking this through right.
Good idea. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)