[Mageia-dev] Updates testing

[Samuel Verschelde]

Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 10:20:16, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
> Le vendredi 8 juillet 2011 06:22:38, Ahmad Samir a écrit :
> > On 7 July 2011 22:04, philippe makowski <makowski.mageia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 2011/7/7 nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org>:
> > >> Yes, for the test about the bug fixed. But isn't there tests to check
> > >> for regressions ?
> > > 
> > > when you push a new minor version (only bugfix) for softwares like
> > > LibreOffice, Postgresql or Firebird for example, will the Mageia QA
> > > team run tests for regression and for all bug fixed ?
> > > whaaaa !
> > 
> > IMHO, for big packages like libreoffice, we'll have to rely on the
> > free-cost-daily-usage QA, i.e. pushing it to Cauldron users for
> > 1-2month, and waiting till the dust settles before pushing to older
> > stable releases.
> > 
> > The interesting part about packages like libreoffice, is they're
> > multi-purpose, so there's no easy way to make sure every functionality
> > works(tm), other than actually letting testes/cauldron-users use it.
> 
> Pushing it also soon to updates_testing and letting it rest there some time
> will also allow to test it on the stable release too (and please the people
> that reported bugs).
> 

I forgot to add that for this to work some testers have to use updates_testing 
as an update media, like I do myself.

Samuel