Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/11/19 Per Jessen
: Rob OpenSuSE wrote:
2009/11/18 Carlos E. R.
: Just run smoltSendProfile, and that's exactly what will happen.
How many ppl would bother to do this?
Not many, only those with an active interest in smolt, I suspect - which might also happen to be the ones with a use for a Smolt ID ?
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?
To me, what is worthwhile testing is something I determine. It is in no way influenced by what may or may not have been tested already. I will often try out the alphas/betas/RCs on boxes I might be prepping for production, or a box that has been taken out of production, but not yet moved. Right now I've got a new firewall box sitting next to me, running 11.2. It won't be going into production for a while. Downstairs I've got an elderly PII running one of the later builds, plus a new(ish) Proliant also on a recent build, but pre-RC.
If 10 people are using that machine daily as a desktop already, then it's waste of time duplicating their effort.
Perhaps - doesn't it depend some on what they're doing with it and if it is _exactly_ the same machine?
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.
Yes, I think that is a very safe assumption to make.
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.
I looked at the smolt package, and AFAICT, Henne Vogelsang added a requirement for cron back in 2008, so maybe that's when the cron-file was created too. Maybe Henne had some specific idea wrt the 0120 time to run smolt? /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org