On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:42 AM admin4 wrote:
is there a Debian "testing" team?
That is composed of everyone who uses Debian and especially those who
decide to report an issue they found.
that does test setups of Debian ISOs on a bunch of different hardware with priority on the most used CPUs like amd64 and i386, (free and non-free versions)),
The Debian CD team do installation testing of each new Debian release
and each new Debian point release. They don't do things like download
RSS feeds or try to use less/vi in the installer though, they just
follow the installer prompts.
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting
1) ask the user if everything works fine (rating from 1 to 5 stars)
and user can add a comment ( send some praise or comments what does/did not work )
I don't think that Debian has enough people to monitor these, we have
enough bug reports and mailing list/forum posts to keep up with as it
is.
2) scan the hardware specs of the system
There is a shared cross-distro hardware database:
https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database
https://linux-hardware.org/
https://bsd-hardware.org/
Unfortunately the script used to upload to the database, called
hw-probe, isn't yet integrated into the Debian installer nor the
Debian live installer (calamares).
https://bugs.debian.org/964853
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1454
anonymized! without any serials and mac addresses or ip addresses or screen resolutions!, before uploading it to debian.org/hardware-compatibility-list
The above hardware database uses truncated salted hashes of some
hardware identifiers, in order to aggregate repeat uploads of hardware
probes of the same computer.
https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues#Data_sharing
https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe#privacy
where the hardware is marked in green (works) orange (can be made to work with this (link) workaround) or red (fails, no fix available currently)
There isn't any way to automatically check if hardware works, you
would need the user to check each item of hardware, make sure they did
the check correctly and only then report it working correctly. We
could create a Debian Live distro for hardware
testing/compatibility/reporting/certification, but no-one has done
that yet, although there was an idea and discussion at DebConf to do
something similar some years ago.
http://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Certification
There is a corner of our wiki where Debian users can report their
experience with installing Debian, as well as the option to file
installation reports, which feed back to the installer team.
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn