Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 1997 11:09:08 -0800 (PST) | From | Benjamin Redelings <> | Subject | Re: Linux Stability & cold.system |
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Thanks for all the information and replies to my query. If you don't mind, could you people repost your replies to cold.system also? (cold.system is the newsgroup comp.os.linux.development.system.) Some people on that group are thinking of getting together and starting to collect stuff for a kernel-validation suite of some kind or other. I think it would be very helpful to have some kind of OFFICIAL testing suite. The good that about an official suite would be that everything anybody finds BUILDS on what is already there, so the suite would eventually become pretty comprehensive. Or at least it will be KNOWN what it doesn't cover. I think it would be cool to see something like "Linux Kernel-Testing Suite 0.16". Or different people could have there own suites which might eventually get merged: for example "Dave's kernel tester v1.06" or "SMP tester 0.9" or " These suites could be made quite user-friendly... they might even automatically e-mail the results to the maintainer in a NICE format, which would probably increase the number of bug reports drastically :) Perhaps this project should be associated with LMP? I don't know. In any case, I hope it works, because I don't have enough time to actually DEVELOP testing suites, but I DO have time to RUN them!
May the force be with us, -benRI
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