RE: [PHP-QA] changing make test for automatic testing

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Kai Schroder wrote: > > > Handing out keys is a pretty nifty idea, but I think we should offer > > > some kind of registration on the QA-website for people who plan to > > > regularly submit testruns and don't object having their system > > > identified by a unique id. This user-key should be distinguishable to > > > a qa-teammember-key though. > > Of course. Even I'm not sure if people without key should be able to > > submit at all. Most of these testruns done by non-qa people are pretty > > worthless anyway. > > ACK. We have a lot of Linux boxes with 10 or 12 standard modules in test > results, but round about the half of existing modules are never tested. If > we hand out machine keys, we can faster find out, which source changes are > broken and we "know" the people behind the machine/email. > > Other point is, that we want rate the importance of a bug by counting failed > test results. If you don't have a unique machine key, you can decrease the > importance by running make test duplicate on your machine (seen on > bugs.php.net more as one time). > > In my opinion we should differ between trusted machines (with key) and > untrusted in statistics. Anonymous tests should only be visible for QA team > members. Yup, I agree with that. Derick -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl/ PHP Magazine - PHP Magazine for Professionals http://php-mag.net/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------