On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:31:28PM -0500, dustin AT zmanda DOT com wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 12:17:51PM -0400, Christopher Linn wrote:
> > i am curious.  how many platforms does zmanda have and use for 
> > test builds and amanda testing?  OSs and hardware?
> 
> One of my current projects is to put a more thorough testing process in
> place -- mostly because it's been *my* patches which have turned out to
> be non-portable!
> 
> For the community version, we currently focus our testing on the
> platforms listed on http://zmanda.com/downloads.html: RHEL 3-5, FC 3-6,
> OpenSUSE 10, SLES 9-10, and Windows (cygwin).  That testing takes place
> on releases, *not* on the snapshots.  The bug which started this thread
> was in last night's snapshot.
> 
> For other platforms, we rely on users to test betas, since the Amanda
> user community has a much wider array of hardware and configurations
> than we could *ever* hope to test in-house. 
> 
> I have a few nascent ideas of how we could improve this process, but I
> would prefer to hear others' suggestions and proposals before I bias the
> conversation with my thoughts.
> 
> Dustin
> 
> P.S. As for hardware -- well, virtualization is a wonderful thing ;)

ok, thanks alot.  cheers..

chris

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