future f12 test days

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 11:38 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> > 
> > ... Really what I have in mind here is stuff like "Video playback locks
> > up the machine", "OpenGL locks up the machine", "Second Life hangs the X
> > server", "World of Warcraft crashes the X server", "This web site
> > crashes the X server", "Rosegarden crashes the X server". All of which
> > are entirely automateable, though the "hard locks the machine" cases
> > will require some sort of hardware watchdog arrangement...
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=441665
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474973
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474977
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487432
> > 
> > At any rate, *some* testing is way better than none at all.
> 
> Sounds reasonable, but how do you turn SMOLT profiles into real test
> machines? In the worst case you will end up building one test server for
> every single bug. Without proper hardware virtualization (which we will
> not see for the next 10-20 years) that testing thing would be more
> expensive than just sending certified hardware to every user for free ;)

All the intel hardware I've been having problems with is stuff I didn't
even pay for. 830M laptop, D845 motherboards, all were hand me downs.
The rest is stuff you can probably ebay for $20-$40 at this point. Its
not really that costly. The new expensive shinies are already being
bought, its the older hardware that needs better coverage.
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