future f12 test days

[Chris Eveleigh]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 14:23 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 19:42 -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> > Though with enough money, you could automate those too, with the use of
> > some cameras and video capture hardware, or for more $$$ high speed
> > digital sampling hardware... Get a hardware hacker to instrument the
> > laptop's backlight...
> > 
> > How much is stability worth to Red Hat Inc?
> 
> OK, reality check here: the Fedora QA department paid by Red Hat is a
> small handful of folks with a smattering of machines - we've got quite a
> few, but not endless vast caverns of them - and a fairly limited budget.
> Your ideas are neat but the Fedora QA department is a considerably long
> way away from having the resources to implement them.
> 
> Right now the test days are planned and arranged mostly by myself and/or
> James Laska in, oh, maybe ten to twelve hours of total time for
> arranging each one. We couldn't easily dedicate much more time than that
> to arranging the test days, so any proposals for improving them need to
> fit into that kind of time frame.
> 
> Or, of course - to take the standard Fedora developer tack - you could
> do it yourself, and send the patches. :)

i'm +1 on automated testing wherever possible.  is there an existing
project/SIG dedicated to coordinating community effort to create those
patches?  i'm imagining something that would end up being a set of
distro- (and possibly OS-) independent tools and procedures.

i love the test days - big thanks for those.  unfortunately i've not
managed to contribute to one yet - just too busy.  :-(

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