[Mageia-dev] Updates testing

Fri Jul 8 10:51:38 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 10:20:16, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 06:22:38, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> > On 7 July 2011 22:04, philippe makowski <makowski.mageia at gmail.com> wrote:
+> > > 2011/7/7 nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org>:
+> > >> Yes, for the test about the bug fixed. But isn't there tests to check
+> > >> for regressions ?
+> > > 
+> > > when you push a new minor version (only bugfix) for softwares like
+> > > LibreOffice, Postgresql or Firebird for example, will the Mageia QA
+> > > team run tests for regression and for all bug fixed ?
+> > > whaaaa !
+> > 
+> > IMHO, for big packages like libreoffice, we'll have to rely on the
+> > free-cost-daily-usage QA, i.e. pushing it to Cauldron users for
+> > 1-2month, and waiting till the dust settles before pushing to older
+> > stable releases.
+> > 
+> > The interesting part about packages like libreoffice, is they're
+> > multi-purpose, so there's no easy way to make sure every functionality
+> > works(tm), other than actually letting testes/cauldron-users use it.
+> 
+> Pushing it also soon to updates_testing and letting it rest there some time
+> will also allow to test it on the stable release too (and please the people
+> that reported bugs).
+> 
+
+I forgot to add that for this to work some testers have to use updates_testing 
+as an update media, like I do myself.
+
+Samuel
+