Preparation for 3.6 release on July 19: Need Smolders, especially Win32

James E Keenan jkeen at verizon.net
Fri Jul 8 22:45:38 UTC 2011


On July 19 we will release Parrot 3.6, a quarterly supported release.

At this point the major problem I see is that, since we lost Smolder 
smoke reports for most of two months, we weren't getting poked by test 
failure reports on various OSes.

Thanks to Coke++, Smolder is back.  But it seems like the overwhelming 
majority of reports are being filed from ... NetBSD!

Now it's great that we're PASSing on NetBSD -- but I'll bet that none of 
us is actually *developing* on NetBSD.  Where are the reports from 
Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and Win32?

Umm, err, umm ... we're in bad shape on Win32.  It looks like only 
fperrad is submitting smolder reports on that OS, and his latest 
(http://smolder.parrot.org/app/projects/report_details/16990 -- 3 days 
old now) shows test failures in *10* files -- some of them complete 
failures.

So I would like to request that anyone who has a Windows machine get 
Parrot building on there, start submitting smoke reports, and start to 
help us diagnosing these failures.

Thank you very much.

kid51



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