[Fwd: mailing list for test results]

[David Herron]

Well, even I read it as being light and funny.  In any case here's a few
thoughts..

The quality group email alias is already under-utilized.  Test results make
sense to post to the quality group.  However the existing group alias has
the token "-discuss" in it and test results aren't exactly discussion.
Given the number of aliases it wouldn't hurt to add another and
quality-results is a good choice for a name.

Is a mailing list the best place to post quality results?

Back when my job was to ponder how to conduct a QA group for the OpenJDK
project the idea I had in mind as the first step was

1) set up qa.openjdk.java.net as a simple data repository w/ very little you
would normally think of as a web server

2) give rights to a set of people to poke files into that repository through
some means

3) do up some scripting to process results with the community writing tools
for results

4) keep it light weight with several ways for people to contribute ways to
tabulate results in ways the community finds useful

5) focus on:  unit/regression test results, mauve test results, findbugs &
other static analysis results

- David Herron

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at sun.com>wrote:

> Dalibor Topic wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > it doesn't seem that anyone is at home in the Quality Group this week,
> > so I figured I'll forward the mail over here.
>
> On a second reading, this sentence sounds mean and frustrated,
> rather then entertainingly light and funny - apologies for that.
>
> > In brief: could we
> > create a mailing list for OpenJDK 6 test results, please?
>
> On a second reading, a question to consider comes up: would we need a
> second list for OpenJDK7 test results? Would one list and meaningful
> subject choices do?
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> > cheers,
> > dalibor topic
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Subject:
> > mailing list for test results
> > From:
> > Dalibor Topic <Dalibor.Topic at Sun.COM>
> > Date:
> > Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:52:34 +0100
> > To:
> > quality-discuss at openjdk.java.net
> >
> > To:
> > quality-discuss at openjdk.java.net
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > as the uptake of OpenJDK in GNU/Linux distributions, and in other
> > exciting places grows, there is an increasing need to have a
> > central place to post test results from jtreg and other test suite
> > runs, and have them archived for later mining, comparison, etc.
> >
> > Other similarly scoped free software projects like the GNU compiler
> > collection use mailing lists for that purpose, in gcc's case that's
> > 'gcc-regression'  - a moderate volume list where regression results
> > for the GCC compilers are posted.
> >
> > It would be great if the Quality Group could provide a similar
> > regression test results mailing list, where people (automatically)
> > building OpenJDK 6/7 and running jtreg could post their results to.
> >
> > For the background of this request, please see the thread at the
> > distro-pkg-dev mailing list, starting at
> >
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2009-February/004925.html
> >
> > cheers,
> > dalibor topic
>
>
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