Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (96 mails)

[Rob OpenSuSE <rob.opensuse.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/11/19 Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
> > 2009/11/18 Carlos E. R. <carlos.e.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Just run smoltSendProfile, and that's exactly what will happen.

How many ppl would bother to do this?

> > On smolts.org there's some very basic stats, but I don't think we can
> > see what OS 11.2 has been tested on.  So it's hard to know if it's
> > worth spending  time on a box, checking if our OS is installable to a
> > point where bug reports could be submitted.
>
> This might be a matter of opinion, but unless you've got a really
> unusual box (embedded or some such for instance), why don't you just
> try it out?  99% of hardware will be supported to a point where
> whatever remains is worth submitting bugreports on.

You've been missing the point in this thread.  This is about using
time of all better.  If you have access to many machines, how do you
choose where is worthwhile trying something?  If 10 people are using
that machine daily as a desktop already, then it's waste of time
duplicating their effort.  Where as if noone has installed on that
hardware 11.2, then possibly it's a sign of boot problems needing a
workround and/or kernel changes.  With some older hardware, testing it
and submitting bug reports can become a lot of work on a marginally
viable box, which then noone really uses; but OTOH if a PCI card is
widely used with older releases, it is worthwhile putting effort in.

It seems clear from response to this thread as a project, we really
have very little idea really about the range of hardware our newest
release has been tested on.  We could only start to get a picture as
cron jobs start running on 1st.  But don't find it obvious with
smolts.org how to filter out Fedora etc and only look at results for
OS 11.x.
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