On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:51:00PM -0500, Michael Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:27 PM Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > There are some QA/CI tools out there that have substantially improved > > the quality of the distro, and most of them have started out as one > > dev just creating a tinderbox or whatever and filing bugs when they > > see problems. The only real downside to this is if somebody quits we > > might lose these tools - but there are efforts to host them on infra > > once we start to treat them as part of the core experience. When they > > start out they're just one dev's random contributions and they may or > > may not persist. > > > > > Speaking of tinderboxes: > > Is there any kind of QA tool that normal end users can contribute CPU > cycles to? Given the massive combinatorial explosion of package > configurations that can be installed using Gentoo, one might imagine that > there's some value in simply installing programs with different USE > combinations and running the self-tests for those programs. > > What I don't want to do is anything manual. Be it filing bugs, or testing > things. > > But I'd be happy to run some arbitrary QA tool in a virtual machine or > chroot nearly indefinitely.
I have power8 to spare :D
