crazy thought about how to ease QA testing

[Axel Thimm]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 04:39:08PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> So I'm kicking around this idea to help w/ QA testing.  What if Fedora
> Legacy provided very base images of the releases we support for use with
> vmplayer?  Vmplayer is free, and from the base image a QA tester could
> update to the package we need QA on, use the package in various ways,
> and report how it worked out.   No need to have a full system of that
> release, no bad effects to your running system, just a nice test
> environment to run a few smoke tests on it.
> 
> Thoughts?

Technically this is a very good idea, but there may be clashes between
"Fedora's goals" as a strict open source solution. It could be food
for discussions similar to "kernel uses propriatary version control
system".

I'm not against using closed source stuff, I'm shipping closed source
but otherwise distributable nvidia drivers and Intel/HP/3ware stuff at
ATrpms myself, but there will be talk about this, and justifying this
decision internally and externally may consume more energy than this
step would profit.

Maybe an unofficial HOWTO on how to setup a vmware host is the best?
No official endorsement of non open source parts, and testers still
have a receipe on how to do their QA on virtual machines.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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