Infrastructure status, 2008-08-19 UTC 0200

[Les Mikesell]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>> Okay, you took the bait. That was an idea for finding out what you
>> would say to other reorganisation of the lists. The problem with
>> fedora-test-list is that it is supposed to be for "testers of
>> fedora development releases" which is different from "test updates for
>> stable releases". Test updates are relevant to users of stable releases,
>> but those users don't like to read all the other traffic. And the list
>> is a source of many off-topic threads and cross-posts (to -devel *and*
>> -test).
>>
> 
> Testing is testing whether it be full blown chance taking or the 
> moderate and less chance of error testing packages.
> Maybe rawhide issues can be discussed on the development list and only 
> testing issues generated on fedora test list. I have benefited by both 
> issues being discussed on the -test list. (Recovery from X errors, lib 
> problems, kernel and SELinux errors, t name a few issue)
> 
> Jim
> 
> PS - I liked Les' fedora-FEMA list idea.


Speaking of testing, I wonder if it would be feasible for an independent 
site to automate a rebuild of the whole system from the src rpms to 
verify that they always generate the exact binaries being distributed 
and also provide a publicly-viewable set of diffs against both 
independently-obtained upstream sources and version-to-version updates.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com