On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 09:18:41 PM Marguerite Su wrote:
Hi,
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Why not just add another DVD?
This is a good idea, but has some drawbacks that we need to address. In openSUSE team we are trying really hard to improve the quality of our distribution. We had make some decisions in that regard, and we see that a good first step is to increase se coverage of the testing: we need to test the maximun number of different configurations for every medium, architecture, file system or boot loader (grub2, shim with UEFI, Secure Boot, ...). This is a combinatorial problem that we can see how fast grows making some numbers: suppose that we want to test only the installation process, and we have: * 5 medium (DVD, PromoDVD, KDE, GNOME, NET and Rescue) * 2 arch (x86 and x86_64) * 4 file systems (ext4, btrfs, LVM, LVM-encript) * 3 boot loaders (grub2, SHIM with UEFI, SHIM with Secure Boot) * 2 installation process (from scratch, updating and old system) The number of combinations that we need to cover is 240, and we need to do this for every stable build that comes from Factory, with more attention before milestones, betas or RCs. If we add a new medium, this number will add 48 more different scenarios where we need to test, and this is only in the installation part, where the desktop has less impact. We are addressing this problem now. We are updating openQA [1] to make those test automatically, and this is a lot of work. In fact, with the new openQA we are currently testing a very small subset of these 240 combinations. I am sure that when we increased the test coverage of the actual set of mediums, add a new medium to test will be a very easy work. [1] http://openqa.opensuse.org/
Greetings
Marguerite
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