On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Thayer Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:02 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote: >> > >> > It's not necessarily a bad thing to have the signoffs come from testers >> > who are not developers-- it saves time for developers to be developing >> > if others are testing. >> > >> > I know I test when I can, but usually get around to it less when I have >> > a backlog of developing to do already. > > I would be happy to test more packages, but I am hesitant to open up the > testing repo on my system after having some bad encounters in the past. > > I've also got an arch in virtualbox, but that doesn't really help for > hardware-related stuff like the recent 3945 wifi update. > > How do you other devs manage your test packages? Do you use separate test > machines or are ya just livin' on the edge? Any best practises you'd like > to share?
Testing hasn't broken my machine beyond a quick 5 minute fix once in the last 6 months. I think we are getting a lot better at self-testing before blindly pushing packages. It isn't like you have to -Syu every day either- just take a glance at the ML and see if there are any "OMG broken" messages there before upgrading. -Dan
