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