On Thursday 19 April 2007 17:55, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > As an example of what I am lamenting here is that there is a Win 2003 bug open > > since 20 March where restore of encrypted (and compressed if I remember > > right) data fails. Another example is that despite my repeated requests over > > something like a six month period, no one (at this moment) has "signed up" to > > do Win32, Solaris, or FreeBSD regression testing. > > I'm somewhat surprised that no one more qualified has stepped forward (I > am not really a developer so I would be hard-pressed to actually patch > anything, and I'm really a small shop regardless), but I am able to do > Solaris regression testing. I do not have an autochanger -- not sure if > I'm missing any other required hardware -- but Solaris support is not > really something I can lose.
Well, since your email, a number of users have stepped forward and once we get it setup, I believe they will *very* well cover the testing, and perhaps produce Solaris binaries. The bug fixing is another problem. > > The trouble is, what happens when something fails a regression test? This afternoon, I am writing up what one does, and I think that the people involved will be able to track down a lot of the problems 95% of the problems for Solaris and FreeBSD are small incompatibilities in either the source code or the regression scripts that have been introduced. For Win32 there are still major bugs in the code to be worked out (at least IMO). The rest of time, it requires someone rather technical. > If > you aren't going to be accepting bug reports on those platforms and I > can't fix them, where does that leave us? For a third party to step in > of some kind? I don't really see a problem with what you're proposing -- > and I know that work that is essentially volunteer is very annoying if > you have no help and have repeatedly asked for it, I just want to know > if there's even a point to my doing testing. I think we should continue to search someone who is willing to fix the serious programming problems. In the very short run (maybe a few months), I will fill in where needed. Fortunately, these serious development problems are rather rare since the code is very portable. On place where we could have certain problems is for bat. Most likely once the user has the Qt4 libraries loaded, it will build. However, for Windows, this is a real "port" that needs to be done that will probably have to wait for a willing Win32 expert to come along. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
