[Linux-ha-dev] Re: [Linux-HA] Release testing with CTS

[David Lang]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> 
> On 2007-07-15T14:58:47, David Lang <david.lang at digitalinsight.com> wrote:
>
>> it would be great if somthing like the auto-build system could feed into a
>> cluster like this for automated testing (I don't know if there would be
>> enough testing with nightly builds, but periodic tested builds would be
>> more valuble then just the nightly builds)
>
> That should be quite easy, actually. Just pull down the packages and
> roll them out across the cluster, run CTS, et voila. It'd be nice if the
> thingy autogenerated mails (if not bugzilla entries) for each failed
> test.
>
> Yes, I'd be very happy to see this.
>
>> any interst from anyone for this?
>
> Hm, maybe you're interested yourself? ;-) It shouldn't be very
> difficult.
>
> I'm moving apartments in the next two weeks and am neck-deep in
> craftsmen right now, so my test cluster is a bit more down than usual.

I'm mvoing in the next month or so, and trying to build a house in the next 6 
months or so. I'm just a wee bit busy right now (and this doesn't count work, 
or my other commitments ;-)

that said, the computer room in the new house would have room for me to run a 
half dozen machines, and I'd be willing to absorb the electrical cost of running 
them if it would be kept busy and the results fed to you guys who are working 
on the project more then I am. but since that won't be available before the 
end of the year I was hopeing that someone else would be interested in doing 
this.

there have been several times over the years when I'be been waiting for a 
release to fix known issues, but Alan hasn't had the time to run the release 
candidate through his clusters, very similar to the situation we have today with 
the 'ancient' 2.0.8 that's the latest release. I've seen his testing find enough 
strange bugs that I'm not willing to try a release in production that hasn't 
made it through his torture tests, so I'm very interested in doing what I can to 
impreove the testing by either expanding Alans test cluster, or assiting others 
in duplicating it in the hopes that releases can happen more regularly.

David Lang