Plan for tomorrows (20081112) FESCO meeting

[Conrad Meyer]

On Friday 14 November 2008 10:44:31 am Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 01:14:02PM -0800, John Poelstra wrote:
> >> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler
> >>
> >> The page appears to be only partially complete and in Category:
> >> FeaturePageIncomplete
> >
> > Yes because, erm, it's not complete.
>
> I think poelcat means, it's incomplete so won't be discussed yet :-)
>
> > Partly I have no idea what's supposed to go in the Test Plan section.
> > An actual test plan covering the features of all the libraries would
> > be huge and take weeks to run.  In addition, we have to disable %check
> > sections in MinGW packages because wine cannot run inside the mock/
> > koji environment.  Wine needs an X server and a writable $HOME.
>
> The test plan needs to tell people how to tell if the Feature is
> complete and whether it's reasonable to tell people it's ready to use
> when the next Fedora release comes out.  If the feature passes the test
> plan then the Feature is announced.  If it fails the test plan, then
> whatever is in the Contingency Plan would go into effect.
>
> For MinGW, I'd ask, how do you know that the libraries you produce are
> working?  What basic goals should someone be able to achieve when using
> them?  What tasks can a tester do to show that someone wanting to
> utilize the feature is not going to be frustrated and disappointed?
>
> -Toshio

Well, if you set PKG_CONFIG_PATH correctly it's pretty easy to compile an 
example a.exe of (just for example, again) a GTK application, that will 
(given appropriate dlls) run on Windows (or under Wine).

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>