Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior <[email protected]> writes:
> Greetings,
>
> I have some doubts about using distroprefs and I could not find
> information about it:
>
> 1 - Once I setup a distroprefs to skip a distribution (because it
> hangs during execution, for example) the maintainer of the
> distribution actually receives some information telling the
> distribution was skipped to be tested? I believe that the maintainer
> should received some feedback (even if the only possible thing is to
> use something like Devel::AssertOS to skip unsupported OS);

He does not get feedback. And I think one of the reasons to skip distros
is not the fail but that some maintainers explicitely do not want to get
any feedback.


> 2 - There is any way to keep control about when to stop skipping a
> distribution? I know that regular expressions could be used to not
> test a specific version, but when using a smoker probably some
> processing hours will be lost when you decide to take a look and see
> that the same distribution is hanging there forever.

Distroprefs are a static thing. Orthogonal to a smoker.
There is no auto-finetune.


> 3 - Is there any plan to create a single repository for distroprefs?
> We are probably losing some synergy by using our own or grabbing some
> from other testers.

I maintain a central one with git submodules to all other repos I'm
aware of:

  https://github.com/renormalist/cpanpm-distroprefs

Though, I didn't update the submodules for a while...

Tell me yours and I add it, or send pull requests, the usual drill.

For my purpose I then merge them as needed, usually use "cpanpm" as base
and overwrite some with my own "renormalist" tweaks.

Kind regards,
Steffen 
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Steffen Schwigon <[email protected]>

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