Re: Backporting Fixes [was: heap malloc when executing binary/elf file]

2020-05-18 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:12 PM Gregory Nutt wrote: > I think we need to assure that these two "tiers" are compatible and use > the same test infrastructure. The should have these things in common: I'd like to move this discussion to a new thread, titled "Automated Testing" without several leve

Re: Backporting Fixes [was: heap malloc when executing binary/elf file]

2020-05-18 Thread Gregory Nutt
* The next tier could be an automated test suite that runs in a simulator. This would be accessible to the greatest numbers of developers and contributors, because there's nothing to buy. * The highest tier could be testing on a reference hardware board. I think we need to assure th

Re: Backporting Fixes [was: heap malloc when executing binary/elf file]

2020-05-18 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:03 AM Gregory Nutt wrote: > Build testing is important but does not address functionality. Things > can be completely broken and still build perfectly. Correct. > Currently our functional testing strategy is simply to ask people to > check releases. But no problems ha

Re: Backporting Fixes [was: heap malloc when executing binary/elf file]

2020-05-17 Thread Gregory Nutt
I have no preference. At some point, I think we also have to say that 9.0.x "is what it is". Or do you see us continuing to maintain the release forever? In the dark, pre-Apache past, I had about a two week period after the release after which it "is what it is". I distrubuted patches up un

Re: Backporting Fixes [was: heap malloc when executing binary/elf file]

2020-05-17 Thread Nathan Hartman
On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 7:11 PM Brennan Ashton wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2020, 3:59 PM Gregory Nutt wrote: > > > Hi, Brennan, > > >>> I just created incubator-nuttx-apps PR 255 that should restore the > > >>> correct behavior: > > >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx-apps/pull/255 > > >>