From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3573 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Szabolcs Nagy Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Request for volunteers Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 09:40:38 +0200 Message-ID: <20130708074037.GE15323@port70.net> References: <20130630055202.GA16580@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <1372961106.6645.3@driftwood> 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 1373269251 19722 80.91.229.3 (8 Jul 2013 07:40:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 07:40:51 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3577-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Mon Jul 08 09:40:52 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 1Uw643-0002LI-Tp for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jul 2013 09:40:52 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3754 invoked by uid 550); 8 Jul 2013 07:40:50 -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 3743 invoked from network); 8 Jul 2013 07:40:50 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1372961106.6645.3@driftwood> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3573 Archived-At: * Rob Landley [2013-07-04 13:05:06 -0500]: > >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. > > Is the Linux Test Project relevant? > most of their tests are for kernel related features some of them are pretty outdated (stress testing floppy io..) and not very high quality (mostly written by ibm folks) there is a large set of 'openhpi' tests and the entire posix_testsuit (already audited), there is a fair amount of network tests, mostly sctp and nfs it seems a bit messy and not quite what we want