Creating a hardware profile for the iso testing tracker

[Nicholas Skaggs]

I'll let you guys continue to work through this. The current system in 
the tracker lets you put a link in -- any link you wish. Historically 
this was a link to your ubuntu friendly profile which could be created 
with checkbox. Since ubuntu friendly has sort of languished and results 
not always showing there, it's sort of quasi deprecated. Our choice for 
a new system is HEXR, but it's not yet available to us. The goal was to 
have a site to manage your submissions that included testing related 
views -- HEXR fits the bill here. We would continue to use checkbox to 
submit and the tracker would grab the systems attached to you and give 
you a dropdown to select which one you used.

Sounds great right? Sadly it's not come to pass yet. While we've been 
waiting the feature is kind of in limbo. However, people have taken to 
running lshw and then pasting the output someplace like pastebin where 
it won't expire and updating it as needed; reusing the link in the 
tracker. The could be better ideas / ways of dealing with this but for 
the moment it's a bit muddy. Keep the discussion going and in light of 
this bit of history, let's see what we can adopt as best practice for 
the cycle.

Nicholas