Hi, Recent OLS 2008 was a critical point in LTP´s evolution, as i got the opportunity to meet several people across the Linux ecosystem, and listened to their opinion about LTP. Here i would start a mail chain with the above Subject line, discuss each and every issue in this mailing list, collate everybody´s opinion on those issue(s) and take action accordingly. These are the people i encountered:
1) People, who uses LTP heavily. And they suggested lots of improvement to it. We will discuss those issues in mails from now, 2) People, who have heard about LTP and not used it till now. They promised that they will give a try, 3) People, who has never heard about it. So, it was an opportunity to convey them what LTP is all about. I hope people in Category 2 & 3 will start using LTP soon, and we will get an enlarged user base and hence bringing more contribution in future. ================= ISSUE # 1 ================= The heavy users made a point of LTP having the capability to automate testing completely. What they meant was LTP to have capability to do: 1) Kernel Build, 2) Kernel Install/Distro install, 3) Then do specific/all tests, They said that this feature will simplify the way they work. I would like to know what you all think about this. What i feel is, every project should evolve and should be flexible enough to meet their users requirement dynamically, and should not be tied down with the limitations of it´s initial design constraints. If automating kernel build, install and tests is a requirement coming from the user community, then we need to give a hard look at it. I would like to know what you think about this. Regards-- Subrata ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ltp-list mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltp-list
