Announcing LHCP - Linux Hardware Compatibility Project

[Phil Knirsch]

nodata wrote:
> Am Montag, den 29.01.2007, 16:24 +0100 schrieb Phil Knirsch:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> We've recently started working on a project called Linux Hardware 
>> Compatibility
>> Project or in short LHCP. Goals are:
>>
>>   * Provide a list of working hardware for people wanting to buy a new 
>> computer
>>   * Provide an idea on what hardware our/your distribution in run on
>>   * Provide a list of hardware we need to improve support for
>>   * Provide an interface to all above that allows simple and complicated 
>> queries
>>   * Get the user a list of thing that should work and a way to test that
>>   * Tell the user how good his hardware is supported
>>
>> There have been several Hardware Compatibility lists from vendors and
>> other projects in the past, but most of them were limited in one
>> aspect or another - so we start our own.
>>
>> To achive this we are building a modular framework to generate, collect, 
>> submit
>> and analyze information about all components of systems running Linux
>> and how well each component works.
>>
>> The project is currently in it's infancy, but following the typical 
>> pragmatic
>> approach of open source projects ("Release early, release often!") we've
>> decided to already officially announce it.
>>
>> Current status is that the basic GUI application for testing is up and 
>> running
>> with some test modules. We're now in the process of writing the first real
>> data collection and test modules and are currently starting to design the
>> server end of the side.
>>
>> The home page of the project can be found here:
>>
>> https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/LHCP
>>
>> If you want to take a look at the current source code you can checked it out
>> using Mercurial in read only mode like this:
>>
>> hg clone http://hg.fedoraproject.org/hg/hosted/LHCP
>>
>> For development discussions a mailing list has been set up here:
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lhcp-devel
>>
>> Although the project is hosted under Fedora we're aiming it to be very
>> distribution independant, so supporting other distributions should be 
>> easy to
>> do. We have some basic requirements on what is needed on the system for 
>> it to
>> simply work, but a lot of things will be optional.
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>>
>> Read ya, Phil & Fabi
>>
>> -- 
>> Philipp Knirsch      | Tel.:  +49-711-96437-470
>> Development          | Fax.:  +49-711-96437-111
>> Red Hat GmbH         | Email: Phil Knirsch <phil at redhat.de>
>> Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web:   http://www.redhat.de/
>> D-70178 Stuttgart
>> Motd:  You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
>>
> 
> Looks good. Will this enable a user to link to a specific piece of
> hardware for bugzilla reporting?

Good point, we'll add that to feature list.

> 
> Any chance of a yum repo for easy updates (and more likely-to-test
> ness)?

Yea, as soon as we're done with the server side as well we'll be doing 
some "real" packaging of the whole project with specfile and autoFOO magic.

> (Dark and dusty weather?)

Weather sucked here during the last few weeks so this looked like the 
perfect test module. :)

Read ya, Phil

PS: Don't mention the rocket :)

-- 
Philipp Knirsch      | Tel.:  +49-711-96437-470
Development          | Fax.:  +49-711-96437-111
Red Hat GmbH         | Email: Phil Knirsch <phil at redhat.de>
Hauptstaetterstr. 58 | Web:   http://www.redhat.de/
D-70178 Stuttgart
Motd:  You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.