[Mageia-dev] Updates testing

Fri Jul 8 12:13:10 CEST 2011

2011/7/8 nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org>:
+> I think the goal is not to do full regression tests, as we don't have
+> time for this. But do minimal testing, in 1 or 2 minutes, to check that
+> basic functionality is still working, to check that the update didn't
+> break everything. For LibreOffice that could be opening a test document.
+> Most applications are easy to test. But some require knowledge of the
+> software, or some configuration files, to test, so we could keep a list
+> of test commands or things to do and config files.
+make sense
+
+Fedora have interesting rules about update/testing updates
+
+Once pushed to testing, people are able to +1/-1 the updates "karma",
+based on whether or not it seems to be functional for them. If your
+update reaches a karma of 3, it will automatically be pushed to
+stable. Likewise, if it reaches -3, it will be automatically unpushed.
+If your update does not receive enough feedback to automatically push
+it to stable, you will have to submit it as a final update yourself.
+This can easily be done with the command-line tool, or with the web
+interface
+
+they also have "proven tester"
+https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Proven_tester for critical path package
+