Re: Organized Linux QA?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2000 - 08:40:13 EST


"Michael D. Crawford" wrote:
>
> Jeff Garzik sez:
> > More power to you, sir!
>
> Taking that as an indication the group would find such a database
> helpful, I just registered linuxquality.com and .org at
> www.internetnamesww.com

I am but an induhvidual, not "the group" by any means...

> This should make your nipples hard: if we allow the user to enter their
> .config files when they report a bug against a kernel build (or report a
> success), then since the .config is already in a pretty machine-readable
> format the database can parse the thing and allow driver and kernel
> developers to do keyword searches according to the configs people used.

gnifty

> All I would need now for collaborative development would be a Pentium II
> or so but on a decent static-IP internet connection. This would be to
> host CVS and to have a testbed database.

> To be able to build and install databases and run Apache on port 80, I'd
> need to be root on this machine. However, there's ways around that - it
> is possible to set up both MySQL and PostgreSQL as a non-root user and I
> could run apache on a high-numbered port for testing (which might be
> just as well if the machine is being used as a web server for some other
> purpose).

SourceForge can host all this stuff for you...

        Jeff

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Building 1024            | it is the safest thing we have.
MandrakeSoft, Inc.       |      -- Harry Emerson Fosdick

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