On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:42 AM admin4 wrote: > is there a Debian "testing" team?
That is composed of everyone who uses Debian and especially those who decide to report an issue they found. > that does test setups of Debian ISOs on a bunch of different hardware with > priority on the most used CPUs like amd64 and i386, (free and non-free > versions)), The Debian CD team do installation testing of each new Debian release and each new Debian point release. They don't do things like download RSS feeds or try to use less/vi in the installer though, they just follow the installer prompts. https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTesting > 1) ask the user if everything works fine (rating from 1 to 5 stars) > > and user can add a comment ( send some praise or comments what does/did not > work ) I don't think that Debian has enough people to monitor these, we have enough bug reports and mailing list/forum posts to keep up with as it is. > 2) scan the hardware specs of the system There is a shared cross-distro hardware database: https://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Database https://linux-hardware.org/ https://bsd-hardware.org/ Unfortunately the script used to upload to the database, called hw-probe, isn't yet integrated into the Debian installer nor the Debian live installer (calamares). https://bugs.debian.org/964853 https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1454 > anonymized! without any serials and mac addresses or ip addresses or screen > resolutions!, before uploading it to debian.org/hardware-compatibility-list The above hardware database uses truncated salted hashes of some hardware identifiers, in order to aggregate repeat uploads of hardware probes of the same computer. https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues#Data_sharing https://github.com/linuxhw/hw-probe#privacy > where the hardware is marked in green (works) orange (can be made to work > with this (link) workaround) or red (fails, no fix available currently) There isn't any way to automatically check if hardware works, you would need the user to check each item of hardware, make sure they did the check correctly and only then report it working correctly. We could create a Debian Live distro for hardware testing/compatibility/reporting/certification, but no-one has done that yet, although there was an idea and discussion at DebConf to do something similar some years ago. http://wiki.debian.org/Hardware/Certification There is a corner of our wiki where Debian users can report their experience with installing Debian, as well as the option to file installation reports, which feed back to the installer team. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise