[openbeos] Re: Bootable Test CD

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Andrew McCall <andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 27/03/2008, Joshua Cummings <jrac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 10:15 +0100, Thom Holwerda wrote:
> >  > On 27 mrt 2008, at 09:01, Niels Reedijk wrote:
> >  >
> >  > > I like that idea. I actually thought a lot of doing something like
> >  > > this: I hope to assemble a Haiku alpha 1 testing pool of a group of
> >  > > 5-10 volunteers that will be testing diverse aspects of alpha 1 on
> >  > > their machines. Since the priorities at this moment are the booting
> >  > > from the CD, installing and partitioning (almost in that order), I
>
> [SNiP]
>
> >  > I'd like to help. I can test on a few machines myself, too, and have
> >  > access to a few more. What exactly did you have in mind?
> >
> > I too have an abundance of varied systems readied for testing.
> >
> >  Maybe we could outline a testing process for each of the mentioned
> >  features and gather our results. Compile some sort of report at the end
> >  to provide feedback on different hardware scenarios.
>
> While I don't think that Haiku is ready for mass-market testing.
>
> I think getting some sort of testing process up and running is a great
> idea.  I have access to almost 5000 machines, all Dell desktops,
> laptops and server that have been made over the last 7 years right up
> to ones made this week.
>
> If an automated test procedure could produce some sort of dump to a
> floppy disk or USB key, or even if available direct via the Internet
> information could be cataloged automatically on what works and what
> doesn't.
>
> ...but as I said, I don't know how ready Haiku developers are to
> accept .  I know they have a plan on how they want to roll out an
> alpha, and I don't know how useful info on what Haiku doesn't work on
> would be right now.  I think the last thing that would be of use is a
> load of random emails to developers saying "this card works" or "this
> card doesn't work".
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew McCall
> andrew.mccall@xxxxxxxxx
>
>

hello, it's a great idea, i listen any people say haiku is a problem to
install, now don't have any excuse, bye

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