On 10 Sep 27, Jamie Bennett wrote: > Hi, > > We have only 43 (or 42 depending on your timezone) days until the Linaro > final release [1] and > as we get closer, the need for more structured testing is essential. An idea > that has been > incubating for some time is to have a weekly 'test day' where individuals can > spend a couple > of hours downloading, installing and testing a Linaro image on their > hardware. Which image(s) > you can test will obviously depend on the hardware available but currently we > produce: > > * OMAP3 Headless > * OMAP3 ALIP > * OMAP3 Plasma Handset > * OMAP3 EFL Netbook > * Versatile Express Headless > * UX500 Headless > > and in conjunction with a hardware pack from: > > http://jameswestby.net:8080/ > > * OMAP4 Headless > * iMX51 Headless > * OMAP3 X11 Base > > Starting this Thursday (30th) I propose that each and every Thursday leading > up to the final > release is a 'Linaro Image Test Day'. If you have any of this hardware > available, please > spend a little time testing and reporting bugs. As an experiment, we will be > setting up the > Linaro qatracker each Thursday morning, UTC, with the information for that > days images. If > you find it useful, please report your testing results at: > > http://qatracker.linaro.org/ > > For information on how to install the images on your hardware please take a > look at: > > http://wiki.linaro.org/Source/ImageInstallation
Jamie, Thanks for this. Some feedback trying to think like an outsider follows: The instructions are still too confusing - spread out over too many wiki pages and many levels of indirection. e.g. How does one _use_ the hwpack? I can't find anything on the links above. On looking at the cmdline options for 'linaro-media-create' I do find the option. But it isn't too obvious reading the wiki. IMHO, as we continuously add support for more platforms and even more boards, it will become untenable to maintain these wiki pages. Something similar to 'testdrive' for Ubuntu is required for the next cycle. Why can't l-m-c ask some basic questions and just DTRT? Questions would be: - What SoC? - What board? - What release (milestone)? - Image type (headless, alip, qemu, etc.) Each of these would be a multiple choice question. This should get rid of the several levels of indirection required just to download all the right components before trying to prepare an image. Regards, Amit _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
