> 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.
The Perl community has had CPAN::Reporter for a while and a set of smoke-test machines that run it. Normal Perl installs run "make test" as part of the normal install, the reporter feeds back test results to the authors -- I get a daily report of what failed and where. The smoke-test servers run CPAN::Reporter on whatever gets checked in each day. In today's world it's rather easy to set this up with docker, using Gentoo and some temp volumes (e.g., example using Gentoo for smoke- testing CPAN: https://www.slideshare.net/lembark/smoking-docker). Adding a Reporter-ish layer to a new version of Portage or a smoke- testing option that does a "emerge --install" into a temp layer in Docker, reports the outcome, and discards the results shouldn't be all that hard. I'd be happy to work on something like this. -- Steven Lembark 5725 Aylesboro Ave Workhorse Computing Pittsburgh PA 15217 lemb...@wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508
