To ensure that future releases of portable OpenSSH are as bug-free as possible, we need to recruit a team of testers. Each tester would be responsible for a particular OS platform and would be called upon to test snapshots before they are marked as official releases. The release would not go out until it had been given the OK by testers on each supported platform. A corollary of this is that only platforms for which we have testers will be treated as supported. Exactly what tests should be performed is a matter for further discussion. They will include at least compilation and basic operation of each of the programs. Hopefully we can automate these tests as much as possible. If you are interested, please email me the details of what platform(s) you are able to test. Favour will be given to people who have contributed to OpenSSH and those with development experience. -d -- | "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox | Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ | Email: djm at mindrot.org (home) -or- djm at ibs.com.au (work)
On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:05:36PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:> To ensure that future releases of portable OpenSSH are as bug-free as > possible, we need to recruit a team of testers.I contributed some code early on, but have since developed other commitments so I haven't been able to spend as much (indeed any) time on the project as I would have liked. I'd like to get involved again. I'm able and willing to test on: Linux-x86 (who isn't?) (Debian slink/potato/woody) Linux-arm (maybe a little rarer) (Severely hacked up RedHat). At times I could do Solaris7 on sun4u, but I'm sure you could find someone with more reliable access to such a machine. If not, feel free to call on me. -Dan -- "... the most serious problems in the Internet have been caused by unenvisaged mechanisms triggered by low-probability events; mere human malice would never have taken so devious a course!" - RFC 1122 section 1.2.2 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20000804/8838d1d9/attachment.bin
On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Damien Miller wrote: [..]> Exactly what tests should be performed is a matter for further > discussion. They will include at least compilation and basic operation > of each of the programs. Hopefully we can automate these tests as much > as possible. >As long as there is a test suite, I'd be more then happy to ensure the NeXTStep 4.2 m68k works as promised (Or up to the current support which should be pretty much gold after the SunOS 4.1.4 fokes.. Thanks again). I've invested too much of my time to let it disappear. =)
hi, On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 01:05:36PM +1000, Damien Miller wrote:> To ensure that future releases of portable OpenSSH are as bug-free as > possible, we need to recruit a team of testers. > > Each tester would be responsible for a particular OS platform and > would be called upon to test snapshots before they are marked as > official releases. The release would not go out until it had been > given the OK by testers on each supported platform.I could do AIX 4.2.x and 4.3.x, but the tests would have to be fairly automated. (Actually, I have to admit that I did not test the latest releases for whether they work on AIX at all - no time, I'm still at OpenSSH 1.2.3 plus private patches). I could also do SCO Unix 3.2v4.2, as soon as a port exists - didn't find time for *that* either. It would be immensely helpful for automatizing those tests if someone could set up a public (?) cvs repository, so that we don't have to download whole tarballs all the time. gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert at greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 gert.doering at physik.tu-muenchen.de
Damien Miller wrote:> > To ensure that future releases of portable OpenSSH are as bug-free as > possible, we need to recruit a team of testers. > > Each tester would be responsible for a particular OS platform and > would be called upon to test snapshots before they are marked as > official releases. The release would not go out until it had been > given the OK by testers on each supported platform.If the Cygwin port would become part of portable OpenSSH I would feel happy to become tester for that platform as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin at sources.redhat.com Red Hat, Inc. mailto:vinschen at cygnus.com
Assuming that I've got a couple of weeks to prepare, I can do testing on 32-bit SPARCs, running RH Linux, Solaris7, and maybe Solaris8. I'm hoping to install this on my IP22 Indy running IRIX 6.5 as well, so I may be able to test there, but with that many platforms, if it takes a half hour a test, time could get tight. Later, Greg
Yo Damien! Linux 2.0/libc5/ix86 Linux 2.2/libc6/ix86 Linux 2.4/libc6/ix86 Linux 2.2/libc6/sparc SCO Unixware 7.1/ ix86 (at least for a few more months) Solaris 2.7/sparc RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem at rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676 On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Damien Miller wrote:> If you are interested, please email me the details of what platform(s) > you are able to test. Favour will be given to people who have > contributed to OpenSSH and those with development experience.
> Each tester would be responsible for a particular OS platform and > would be called upon to test snapshots before they are marked as > official releases. The release would not go out until it had been > given the OK by testers on each supported platform.I can do Solaris 7/8 on a varity of Sun boxes in both 32/64 bit trim. I would not say that I'm of 'development quality' in the debugging area. I am more than capable of running scripts. On a related note, scp didn't want to transfer the 3.2gb tarball. Large file issues on Solaris, I guess. Any ideas. -- john weaver -- jweaver at aens.net | Systems Administrator
I can probably help out a DG/UX intel test. I would need to know what kind of tests are required though. On Fri, 04 Aug 2000, Damien Miller wrote:>To ensure that future releases of portable OpenSSH are as bug-free as >possible, we need to recruit a team of testers. > >Each tester would be responsible for a particular OS platform and >would be called upon to test snapshots before they are marked as >official releases. The release would not go out until it had been >given the OK by testers on each supported platform. > >A corollary of this is that only platforms for which we have testers >will be treated as supported. > >Exactly what tests should be performed is a matter for further >discussion. They will include at least compilation and basic operation >of each of the programs. Hopefully we can automate these tests as much >as possible. > >If you are interested, please email me the details of what platform(s) >you are able to test. Favour will be given to people who have >contributed to OpenSSH and those with development experience. > >-d > >-- >| "Bombay is 250ms from New York in the new world order" - Alan Cox >| Damien Miller - http://www.mindrot.org/ >| Email: djm at mindrot.org (home) -or- djm at ibs.com.au (work)-- Dave Dulek System Administration Fastenal Company E-mail: ddulek at fastenal.com Phone: (507) 453-8149 Fax: (507) 453-8333