From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B71F0138350 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EB5CE0B0A; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EDBBDE0AC2 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:05:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57ADB5C0126 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:05:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mailfrontend2 ([10.202.2.163]) by compute2.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:05:17 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ftml.net; h=date :from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :in-reply-to; s=fm3; bh=0idMBCzFrrm4eByRw0gcauOK2ecu+gkugR7wkDzB Gzg=; b=cn5gE8uEICqLM2aggUBTriuX0/1PtpkO/dLNBNr41p9HwjKHLxSBn9mY RqI5dfGL9n57OK1INlSgrukDB7/jOWFrqgEEBquSzK2sJJneuyjHCJIZ+GPwj1kL iawL84WnDQINpzUwwzt2UTs/0qwaBI/DL0Oo/JRQtvbbnqP7kNsD1tNhNlZfF0pY CQX+NbJUYRso+ZGyMceGvZJ7iZMq5a4mA65+2mwNABr3x4ni1eNf1kWn33RXL7rd +G2/gF0fJLAK67MYOGiYuvwQLnTNa/s+HiqdTOS/nnWfB5CemVYAdW+W1ghQjxcp Z9HLCnq4zdGRpU8wCM50Ve7zcJiTrw== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=content-type:date:from:in-reply-to :message-id:mime-version:references:subject:to:x-me-proxy :x-me-proxy:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm2; bh=0idMBC zFrrm4eByRw0gcauOK2ecu+gkugR7wkDzBGzg=; b=AxymsjDBEfB4kM4NKoBCO1 AT98d46idnkGiZTGayU/Gj8XYDLizamHPhTM9ZStJ9m1CdD5/MmN2DelyD5a4Dwj jCHNNFkDzkObEhOB1+lwrqyrXDQnAI1q9Ad6Sb9wO5NqbzfmJSRqJM7FJqqpT6Tw emUXEfNAJNr2qiOnRadlsu+UuIQvCWUU2xNztnWP2GQPozSbBNYESI3f64kFwrvs OtBdCt16LhCAyBEFYSdgBumiBT/igH/H1bGG7umA3CkFawH7KUW1+NVdBoO1Ohok 4UrQn0h3LfdJqsctsKKDjMNoinSPWr2p/PPMP3sWOj7actYZ4UbRsZo7/cyLNIIw == X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeduhedrgeeigdduiecutefuodetggdotefrodftvf curfhrohhfihhlvgemucfhrghsthforghilhdpqfgfvfdpuffrtefokffrpgfnqfghnecu uegrihhlohhuthemuceftddtnecunecujfgurhepfffhvffukfhfgggtuggjsehttdertd dttddvnecuhfhrohhmpeevohhnshhushcuoegtohhnshhushesfhhtmhhlrdhnvghtqeen ucfkphephedrudekrddvfeeirdduhedvnecuvehluhhsthgvrhfuihiivgeptdenucfrrg hrrghmpehmrghilhhfrhhomheptghonhhsuhhssehfthhmlhdrnhgvth X-ME-Proxy: Received: from redacted (unknown [5.18.236.152]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 97E543065C71 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:05:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 02:05:13 +0300 From: Consus To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Tinderboxes? Message-ID: <20200421230513.GG187193@redacted> References: <20200421165803.GB187193@redacted> <11506562.O9o76ZdvQC@peak> <20200421190145.GF187193@redacted> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: a23de22d-8084-4ea4-bd4a-59f9828d9a83 X-Archives-Hash: e8c10dea90da861adc0434614c04ae5b On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 03:51:00PM -0500, Michael Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:27 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > > > There are some QA/CI tools out there that have substantially improved > > the quality of the distro, and most of them have started out as one > > dev just creating a tinderbox or whatever and filing bugs when they > > see problems. The only real downside to this is if somebody quits we > > might lose these tools - but there are efforts to host them on infra > > once we start to treat them as part of the core experience. When they > > start out they're just one dev's random contributions and they may or > > may not persist. > > > > > Speaking of tinderboxes: > > Is there any kind of QA tool that normal end users can contribute CPU > cycles to? Given the massive combinatorial explosion of package > configurations that can be installed using Gentoo, one might imagine that > there's some value in simply installing programs with different USE > combinations and running the self-tests for those programs. > > What I don't want to do is anything manual. Be it filing bugs, or testing > things. > > But I'd be happy to run some arbitrary QA tool in a virtual machine or > chroot nearly indefinitely. I have power8 to spare :D