From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3525 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Request for volunteers Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 23:51:17 -0400 Message-ID: <20130701035117.GX29800@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20130630055202.GA16580@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20130630104834.GP15323@port70.net> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1372650689 27143 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2013 03:51:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 03:51:29 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3529-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jul 01 05:51:30 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UtV9G-0004kl-Iq for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:51:30 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 11611 invoked by uid 550); 1 Jul 2013 03:51:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 11603 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2013 03:51:29 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130630104834.GP15323@port70.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3525 Archived-At: On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 12:48:35PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > * Rich Felker [2013-06-30 01:52:02 -0400]: > > 5. Rigorous testing. My ideal vision of this role is having somebody > > who takes a look at each bug fix committed and writes test cases > > for the bug and extrapolates tests for possible related bugs that > > haven't yet been found. And who reads the glibc bug tracker so we > > can take advantage of their bug reports too. > > i can look into this one Excellent. If anybody on the team right now is the perfect person for this task, it's you; I just wasn't clear on whether you'd have any hope of having time for it. If it's borderline whether you would or not, perhaps we could find someone else to be a "research assistant" for the testing project. This could involve tasks like: - Reading the git log and making a list of noteworthy bugs to add regression tests for. - Determining (perhaps via automated coverage tools) major code we lack any testing for. - Cross-checking glibc bug tracker and/or glibc tests for issues that should be checked in musl too. Rich