Re: [gentoo-science] sci team help

["Sébastien Fabbro" <bicatali@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 00:02 +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> While I too might have some interest in developing particularly the scientific 
> packages, Donnie's comment made me to wonder whether the idea of "support teams" 
> (cf. arch testers) was buried? 

Becoming an arch tester is (I think) still possible, and a sci tester is
definitely possible. You need to answer the ebuild development quiz.
People interested should read the pointers mentioned in a previous email
of this thread, and mail me or sci@g.o. so we can gather all requests.

> I think this idea that was mentioned in the previous thread would be especially 
> suitable for the sci-team and its packages that often require, besides the normal 
> ebuild practices, some special expertise to carry out full runtime testing. Or would 
> these teams just mean extra work for the actual developers? Will a presumably small 
> community using the scientific packages need this kind of an extra layer? 

Possible ways to have some tests procedures:
- bugzilla: add the test procedure to an existing new package bug, or
file a new bug properly assigned to the herd mentioned in the ebuild
metadata.xml.
- overlay: write test procedures, just as the emacs project did [1]

I will see with overlay.g.o staff if we can open our overlay wiki to the
gentoo science community and make it a more general wiki.

--
Sébastien

[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs

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