Monthly Archives: August 2012

When you should block a stabilization

Posted on August 22, 2012 by ago

Many times in the past, a lot of people found bugs for packages actually in a STABLEREQ. Every time my answer was: make it as a block only if is a regression; and every time the next question was: “What … Continue reading →

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Always looking for arch tester(s) – part 2

Posted on August 10, 2012 by ago

Hello folks! I’m really surprised, because I received a lot of response for my previous post about ‘calling’ for arch tester role. First, I would like to thank these people for their interest. Now is summer for all, so I propose … Continue reading →

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How to test toolchain components (gcc, glibc, binutils)

Posted on August 4, 2012 by ago

Seems obviously for many of you, but a lot of people in the past, have asked me how to test toolchain components and be sure to don’t break anything. Ok, as usual we will start to test the singular package … Continue reading →

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Always looking for arch tester(s)

Posted on August 3, 2012 by ago

We always looking for new arch testers. Simple answers to possible questions: 1) What you should do? you should test the packages on a specific architecture on a stable environment. 2)Do you use also ~arch packages? No problem, there is … Continue reading →

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