Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (328 mails)

[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

> There's some feeling been shown by Novell staff, that too few ppl are
> testing Beta's and RC's.

Well, in my case I won't test on my hardware (aka bare metal install)
because I need a functioning system, and I can't take my computer down
for daily restarts to test the each build of the next release (it's a
fileserver, webserver etc.).  As a compromise I install as many builds
as I can into a VM (mainly VirtualBox) and tinker there.  Almost
always by the time I run into a bug it's already been reported.

The disadvantage of doing all my testing in a VM is that a lot of the
quirks of installing on the actual hardware will never show up.

I think as long as there are clearly defined releases that run in
their own Ivory Tower of application versions, we will be facing this
problem.  People don't always have a spare computer with
common/duplicate hardware configs just laying around to use as a
testbed.  They often have one machine and can't really afford the
downtime if something goes wrong.

I don't know the solution... continuous updating the head as Gentoo
does?  That approach has some major problems too.

C.
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