Mats Erik Andersson <mats.anders...@gisladisker.se> writes: > Hello, > > I am pondering on the mechanisms in use for testing inetutils > on different operating systems. The capacities I have myself > is Debian GNU/Linux, Debian GNU/kfreebsd, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD, > in a mixture of i386 and amd64. > > I did make an effort to arrange OpenSolaris alongside OpenBSD, > but the Solaris patched GRUB only functioned as graphical/Solaris, > or as text/OpenBSD, not vice versa, so I can not add OpenSolaris > to my testing. > > To what extent are patches mechanically, or manually, tested > on different systems before entering the repository?
I cannot speak of others, but I suspect systematic testing of InetUtils is minimal. It would help a lot if we had more self tests, then we can automate things on a number of platforms. I have access to GNU/Linux Debian/Ubuntu/gNewSense systems and Mac OS X 10.4 ppc and Mac OS X 10.5 x86. Personally, I'd rather see more systematic and automatic testing rather than require more manual testing of patches, since the latter tends to slow down development. /Simon
