Re: [gentoo-releng] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 21:06 -0600, John Alberts wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 7:40 PM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So nobody has *any* ideas, at all for this? It's been a week and there hasn't been a *single* response. I think the list of questions you have suggested is fine. The

Re: [gentoo-releng] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 21:22 -0600, John Alberts wrote: Also, I think instead of asking the user what type of hardware they have, they should be asked to attach the output of lspci, lsusb, and cat /proc/cpuinfo. Hardware information is fine and dandy, but having some piece of critical software

[gentoo-releng] Re: Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'll start us off: - Which media did you download? (Minimal, Universal, LiveCD, LiveDVD) - Did the media pass MD5/SHA1 checks? (If you didn't check, say so.) - Does the media boot on your system? - If not, what errors were reported? - Did you use

Re: [gentoo-releng] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Rémi Cardona
Chris Gianelloni a écrit : Is it really that nobody cares or is everybody just being lazy and saying yeah, that's good enough when I intentionally didn't list lots of things that I'd came up with when writing the original list. I honestly don't know which it is here. Do we know how many

[gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Nikolić Milan
And what do you say about midnight commander on minimal cd, ok, live cd has gui file managers, I never use it anyway but what about minimal? I use systemrescuecd only because of this

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Matthew
On Feb 1, 2008 10:14 AM, Nikolić Milan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what do you say about midnight commander on minimal cd, ok, live cd has gui file managers, I never use it anyway but what about minimal? I use systemrescuecd only because of this mc would be really nice, another app users

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Rémi Cardona
Matthew a écrit : On Feb 1, 2008 10:14 AM, Nikolić Milan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And what do you say about midnight commander on minimal cd, ok, live cd has gui file managers, I never use it anyway but what about minimal? I use systemrescuecd only because of this mc would be really

[gentoo-releng] 2008.0 livecd release feature-request

2008-02-01 Thread Matthew
Hi everybody, I don't know if it's even possible but: can the next livecd release please include reiser4-support? given its current state (it's pretty stable, all maior problems / flaws should be fixed) and there's already a 2.6.24-patch it should be not a big deal to include it since gentoo is

Re: [gentoo-releng] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Markus Hauschild
Hi, I think I've come up with some more questions: * did you use the graphical installer or did you install manually (and why) * did everything with the graphical installer work as expected (if used, and explain what did not work as expected) -- Cheers, Markus -- gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-releng] 2008.0 livecd release feature-request

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 01/02/2008 в 10:12 +0100, Matthew пишет: I don't know if it's even possible but: can the next livecd release please include reiser4-support? Please, search before post. This was already discussed here. -- Peter. signature.asc Description: Эта часть сообщения подписана цифровой

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Matthew
Guys, have you forgotten you were talking about the minimal live cd? Which is exactly what its name says it is : minimal. Only the critical stuff needed to install Gentoo. If you want more stuff, there's always the regular live cd, which is also there for exactly this reason :) Cheers,

RE: [gentoo-releng] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Nelson Batalha
-Does your computer run other OS/distributions without the same problems? If so, please list them (optionally along with drivers/modifications you installed/made in it). For the LiveCD/DVD: -Did you start all applications? In any case, are any of them failing? If so, what is reported when

Re: [gentoo-releng] 2008.0 livecd release feature-request

2008-02-01 Thread Matthew
On Feb 1, 2008 11:10 AM, Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: В Птн, 01/02/2008 в 10:12 +0100, Matthew пишет: I don't know if it's even possible but: can the next livecd release please include reiser4-support? Please, search before post. This was already discussed here. -- Peter. you

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Nikolić Milan wrote: And what do you say about midnight commander on minimal cd, ok, live cd has gui file managers, I never use it anyway but what about minimal? I use systemrescuecd only because of this No, we're not adding random apps to the minimal, especially something so very

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:14 +0100, Nikolić Milan wrote: And what do you say about midnight commander on minimal cd, ok, live cd has gui file managers, I never use it anyway but what about minimal? I use systemrescuecd only because of this The minimal CD should be minimal. Unless it's

Re: [gentoo-releng] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 09:58 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote: Chris Gianelloni a écrit : Is it really that nobody cares or is everybody just being lazy and saying yeah, that's good enough when I intentionally didn't list lots of things that I'd came up with when writing the original list. I

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:26 +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote: Guys, have you forgotten you were talking about the minimal live cd? Which is exactly what its name says it is : minimal. Only the critical stuff needed to install Gentoo. When he said LiveCD I assumed that he meant the LiveCD. The

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Markus Hauschild
+1 on sys-process/htop its really useful imo On Feb 1, 2008 6:12 PM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm however missing support for ntfs3g, sys-process/htop is a must for management of tasks Hrrmn... file a bug for ntfs3g (assign to [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I'll add it. What's

Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature request for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 19:26 +0100, Markus Hauschild wrote: +1 on sys-process/htop its really useful imo On Feb 1, 2008 6:12 PM, Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm however missing support for ntfs3g, sys-process/htop is a must for management of tasks Hrrmn... file a bug for

[gentoo-releng] Feature Requests for 2008.0 no longer accepted

2008-02-01 Thread Chris Gianelloni
Due to the schedule[1] for 2008.0, new feature requests[2] are no longer being sought for the release. We will be looking through the requests and working with maintainers today to see about adding everything that we feasibly can do. If you have a feature you would like to see added, please feel

RE: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Nelson Batalha
It's in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208499, everyone interested please test and post comments/patches there. If I have the time I'll try and make it prettier since it'll be the first gentoo contact to new users :) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

RE: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Nelson Batalha
It works with the releases that are compatible with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml, I think only 2006.1 is the exception (search this list). Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 15:32:15 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: gentoo-releng@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for

RE: [gentoo-releng] Re: Call for feature requests for 2008.0

2008-02-01 Thread Nelson Batalha
Nelson Batalha wrote: It works with the releases that are compatible with http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml, I think only 2006.1 is the exception (search this list). Stop top posting, people! Argh! This is not top posting... Do I have to explain why?... It may not be an

[gentoo-releng] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Checklists for testers and QA

2008-02-01 Thread Vlastimil Babka
Chris Gianelloni wrote: This should be a pretty decent start and give everyone an idea of what we would be looking for with these checklists. What things do you think need to be checked for and what information do you think we would need to properly diagnose any issues? Well quite obvious