From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4KMdLjr012790 for ; Fri, 20 May 2005 22:39:22 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DZG9J-0004IH-7V for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 22:39:22 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DZG92-0000TC-MC for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 20 May 2005 23:39:04 +0100 Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 23:38:56 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Keywording, for the umpteenth time Message-ID: <20050520233856.5ef8f45d@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <1116625790.9174.5.camel@tom.tomaw.org> References: <1116615190.8364.203.camel@localhost> <428E4DE7.70905@gentoo.org> <20050520222238.157d8270@snowdrop> <1116625790.9174.5.camel@tom.tomaw.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Message-Flag: It's a feature, not a bug Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Fri__20_May_2005_23_38_56_+0100__oplW9MvkYzTrg.O; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: 07e8b4ed-92fc-4c22-a359-45ebd51bf982 X-Archives-Hash: 33cc91cf18c2b045675982f7d4828c6e --Signature_Fri__20_May_2005_23_38_56_+0100__oplW9MvkYzTrg.O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 20 May 2005 22:49:50 +0100 Tom Wesley wrote: | On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 22:22 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Not gonna happen. Emulators don't cut it and won't find all the | > problems (but they will find a load of other bogus non-issues). | > Plus, from experience I'd say that at least half our devs wouldn't | > have a clue where to start when doing arch testing... |=20 | Add this HOWTO arch test to your developer docs. Very nice by the | way. Could do. I intend to include sections for domain-specific and task-specific tasks at some point. The Debian Policy Manual does this to a certain extent -- they have sections on things like "what to do if your app needs to install cron jobs", "what to do if your app installs shared libraries", "Emacs lisp programs" and various others. I'm kinda tinkering with the best way for us to do a similar thing. There've been a few requests for an "X11 Apps" section in The Doc, for example. I guess arch-specific commentary would be good too. Would anyone from any of the arch teams that I don't work on be prepared to feed me with information? Of course, a lot of arch testing is still down to experience. As with everything else, docs can help as a reference but they can't replace skilled devs, nor can they replace having an arch team that actually discusses things and coordinates keywording. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Fri__20_May_2005_23_38_56_+0100__oplW9MvkYzTrg.O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCjmcC96zL6DUtXhERAq/gAKCYIOREfCPFSGXDvOGuQqu0JSZuRQCg5Ng9 JSHb6NbknSRSlohjXTrXg4o= =8gHI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Fri__20_May_2005_23_38_56_+0100__oplW9MvkYzTrg.O-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list