Updating daily builds on a daily basis.

[Sanjeev Gupta]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Sanjeev,
>
> you are indeed, old fashioned.
>

Phil, I do not need a million Ubuntu users telling me that, I can get
_that_ comment at home, for free :-)  And multiple times a day.


> The builds for testing are done on a cron (automatic) job. Extra ones can
> be triggered in. By insisting on all of the the updates to keep you up to
> date, you cannot help in any testing as no one and no bug report would know
> what you are running on any system.
>
> There is a VERY good reason to to use the iso tracker, and from your
> comments you have never read why [1]. Even as 'old school' I do believe a
> leopard can change its spots. There are up coming sessions for bugs [2] and
> testing [3].
>

I have read the ISO test cases, but ..

I am not helping at all in testing the install from CDROM.  The easy way to
do that is via a VM, which I think has adequate coverage, and installing on
a spare system (that I will lightly use) would be inadequate, I think.

I am trying to assist in running the test-cases that do NOT require CD
installs, but PPA, unity, etc.  Example is the call I saw this week for
evince.  Since I use evince all the time on my main laptop, it is more
likely, IMHO, that I will tickle a bug there.

I know this is not perfect, but it is relatively painless.


> I ask that you attend these sessions where the usage Zsync will be
> explained early on. Using this lowers the data usage across all the servers
> and ensures people have speedy access and the cost to provide them is
> lower, along with being able to make a bug report that can be carried
> forward. Once we have arrived with a test system that others have, we can
> then proceed to test and report upon it.
>

True.  But my idea was to stay on the proposed-updates, and raring, and
feed bug reports into the packages themselves, rather than QA.

--
Sanjeev
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