Re: agenda for todays QA meeting

2020-07-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 10:42 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > You mean like ECC RAM? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1857996 Reads like an alien autopsy. (Gory details, and nothing looks familiar.) But you'll totally understand the conclusion. -- Chris Murphy

Re: agenda for todays QA meeting

2020-07-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 8:54 AM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > > > > On 7/21/20 18:06, Chris Murphy wrote: > > That is variable depending on the source, but quite a lot of human > > produced material has a metric F ton of zeros in it, so it turns out > > we get a lot of compressibility. This is u

Re: agenda for todays QA meeting

2020-07-22 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 7/22/20 12:41, Samuel Sieb wrote: Most compression algorithms are far more than "removing same value byte strings".  Check out "huffman encoding" for example.  I've never had a lossless compression program corrupt my data.  Given your extreme mistrust of compression algorithms, it seems

Re: agenda for todays QA meeting

2020-07-22 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/22/20 7:54 AM, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: I really like your description. I see now that if the compression is just removing same value byte strings how it really can be truly lossless. As someone who has had to deal with it I'll say that the extra intense radiation from sunspots really

Re: agenda for todays QA meeting

2020-07-22 Thread pmkel...@frontier.com
On 7/21/20 18:06, Chris Murphy wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 3:36 PM pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: The only ones I've ever seen (not a large population since I've been a compression avoid-er) that approach lossless don't compress much and only take out strings of the same byte value. A very

As a developer I want to easily execute/enable tests

2020-07-22 Thread Petr Šplíchal
Hi! I am writing today to share a proposal for how we can make it easier to enable tests in Fedora CI. We've heard the user story mentioned in the subject many times. Fedora developers have frequently mentioned the difficulties which they face with enabling tests in Fedora CI. Some people don't u