On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 02:37:52AM -0300, Joey Hess wrote: > When we're checking out the test candidate, it's essential that we cover > all arches and as many installation methods as we can. An important > question is whether too many of our key testers -- folk like Bdale and > Jeff Bailey -- will be at the conference and so away from their arch > farms at home. Also we need to know what hardware will be at the > conference -- i386 will no no problem, but what other arches will be > covered there?
> I want to have people lined up ahead of time for each architecture who > will be available to do some testing during both time periods. So please > make a commitment now if you can. > (I myself can promise that I will test i386 installs from: usb key (on > real hardware) and on CD, floppy + network, and floppy + cd (vmware). > Also 32 mb installs from floppy and from CD. Oh, and 2.6 installs from > usb key and from CD. I will be unable to test netboot at least during > the 21-24 may period, and also won't be able to check wireless stuff, or > obscure i386 hardware. With a total of 7 installs in vmware, it will take > me approximatly 2 days to do this testing.) I'd happily work on alpha at DebConf, but I definitely don't have a portable one that I can bring with. If someone has an alpha that uses a serial console and can be connected to a remote power switch, that's probably a much saner option than trying to bring an alpha down with us (though of course, that will limit testing to netboot). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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