Am Dienstag, 28. Februar 2006 14:48 schrieb houghi:
On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:22:23PM +0100, Pascal Bleser wrote:
Joop Boonen wrote:
I forgot to ask something at the FOSDEM. I notice when i have a bug. That you (understandably) don't have the same hardware in the house.
So i was wondering if it might be interresting to have a database with all hardware of all beta testers in it. So you can ask an other beta tester to do a test.
That's a good idea. Well, just create a wiki page for it on the opensuse.org wiki ;)
Has anyone something to object ?
In itself, no. I just wonder if a Wiki is the ideal place for such info. I do not know how many betatesters there are. If I just look at the torrents, there are several hundred.
Agreed, but in the short-term a good table set-up on the Wiki would proably work until a better long term solution can be found.
I am just curious what the added value of such a page would be and if there is not perhaps a better way to comunicate that your hardware does or does not work. This would probably mean a database where betatester can enter what worked and what not.
Probably more helpful for the Dev's, say they've supposedly fixed a problem which manefests itself on specific hardware or a combination of hardware, they can look for a tester who has that configuration, and ask them to test it specifically - obviously it would need testing on other hardware as well to ensure that it didn't break anything else, but if the specific combination isn't available in the lab I think it might be useful...
Also perhaps the info is just needed if things don't work.
houghi
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