Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

Hi,

Richard Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org>:

> Raúl Porcel wrote:
> > 
> > So it would be cool if they accepted help from other devs who don't
> > have an amd64 system but have access to one and can test stuff. Cla
> > is willing to help.
[...]
> I don't keyword a package stable unless I've done at least a moderate 
> amount of testing on the package to ensure that it works.  If a
> package looks simple but obscure I might go ahead and install it and
> play with it, but I'd probably never keyword an emacs package stable,
> since I don't ever use emacs and I won't pretend that all there is to
> it is installing it and typing "hello world" and figuring out how to
> quit.

 Hah, got you.  Emacs team has a collection of test plans, that are
understandable and have a step-by-step guide to the package.  You may
not have noticed because at the moment, Emacs teams handles nearly all
stabilisation requests itself on amd64.
 Yes, testing is crucial, but it eases your pain if you have an arch
tester going over it beforehand and amd64 is well equipped with that.

> If there are folks out there who can test on amd64 systems then I'm
> sure that the amd64 team would look forward to their help (just
> contact kingtaco about it) - either by arch testing or perhaps by
> just keywording as appropriate.  However, we do need to be careful
> about just going on a hunt to close bugs - "if it builds then it's