On 02/10/14 21:46, Ian Romanick wrote: > On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, Emil Velikov wrote: >> So in a nutshell what I've gathered so far: >> >> * Concerns that it will take too much effort. >> Dare I say it - it will not. A single build + sanity run takes a few >> minutes. >> >> * There is no point if tagging/shipping (distro or otherwise) piglit >> for people that do not know/have the time/etc to build it. >> With all respect - even if all of us have plenty of trained members in >> their QA team, I believe that we all can welcome the little extra >> assistance this can bring us. Imho AMD and Nvidia hardware tend to have >> more (versatile) products, so additional testing there would always be >> appreciated. >> >> * But to what end? Why is packaging snapshots of an always changing >> developer test suite useful? >> - Does it hurt ? I believe not. > > It does. > > People should always use the most up to date test suite. Having > releases encourages people to use an out of date test suite. > Hmm... even if I abstract myself from anything about mesa/piglit I cannot see how an engineer/scientist will make such a deduction. Version 10.0.1 and 10.0.2 - the latter is a patch/bugfix thus I should use it ?
Do you know(are you allowed to share) if the test suite from Khronos has any tags/versioning associated ? Or is it "pull the latest changes, rebuild + use" style like piglit ? -Emil >> - Is there a possibility of being useful ? Not amazingly large, but yes. >> - Would it help the versatility "problem" mentioned above ? Possibly. >> - Will it align with i-g-t requirements, without the hassle of splitting >> the tests from the testrunner ? Yes. >> >> * Split the runner from the tests, so that it can be used by others - >> i-g-t. >> As already pointed this alone will be more than enough hassle for devs >> and QA alike. Perhaps we can hold off the idea for now ? >> >> >> I believe this covers most/all topics. Are there any actual >> concerns/issues that someone can foresee with this idea ? I feel that >> someone may envision/feels that this may cause headaches but is keeping >> low :) >> >> >> Thanks >> Emil >> _______________________________________________ >> Piglit mailing list >> Piglit@lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/piglit > _______________________________________________ Piglit mailing list Piglit@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/piglit
