On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, GOUJON Alexandre wrote: [...]
Except the fact that I wasn't testing my patch the right way (I'm not very proud of it), this also proved the TestBot is not very efficient regarding volume tests. So, I am proposing to add several virtual drives to some virtual machines. Is it possible ? I can work on it if needed. With genisomage and mkudffs, it's very easy to generate ISO files of different kinds. It won't be the same as with real discs and real drives but at least, it would prevent some regressions.. Any comment on this ?
The existing WineTestBot infrastructure is going to be replaced soonish... hopefully. So it's unlikely that we'll change the VMs now.
However we can certainly add some drives or even ISOs as we build the VMs of the new WineTestBot. You'd need to detail which configurations you're interested in.
One thing to keep in mind is we should strive to test as much as possible in as few configurations as possible, especially for the base VMs (those that run every single test patch). But at the same time it should be possible to isolate the effect of one configuration change.
I'm pretty sure others have things they'd like to see in the new WineTestBot. Where can we keep track of those?
Should we add a WineTestBot product to Bugzilla? Should the WineHQ.org product be coopted?