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Re: oldworld and general (powerpc) testing Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)



On Sunday 11 December 2005 11:17, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Please do bug me (even with CC:ing) when there is something to test on
> oldworld. At least I'll be able (=have time) to test by booting some
> kernel images... Should I test 2.6.14 "now" or wait til .15(rc) ? Well,
> I wont be able to test before the 20th anyway... but please ping me, if
> there is oldworld stuff to test.

In general it would be great if you could do semi-regular tests. I try to 
do the same for x86 and sparc. For sparc I generally only do them on 
kernel changes and when I know there have been changes in udebs or for 
example parted, bootloaders that might impact sparc installs.

> Frans, I've put my name into /installer/doc/devel/testers.txt and
> updated the release-checklist there as well. Besides being unsure, if
> prep/nubus/apus and the IBM CHRP machines would benefit from a floppy
> testcase, I'm also not convinced that having the checklist there is
> really as useful as it could be. (The file is too static and too well
> hidden ;)

The release-checklist is really only intended to be used when actually 
preparing for a release, not as a permanent record of status and issues.
If you want to do something like that for (oldworld) ppc, maybe a wiki 
page would be better suited. I'd suggest you include a method to indicate 
when the last test was performed and what image was used.

There is of course also [1] to register (temporary) issues with the daily 
builds.

Cheers,
Frans

P.S. Congratulations on your new job as kernel maintainer :-)

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstallerToday

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