QA and Release Engineering meeting - Monday June 5th 2006

Agenda and Notes

Chandler

wx svn build

• wx repo created
• cvs branch initialized, Robin sent an email on this
• Bear wrote a tool in Python to pull the comments from CVS and get the same comments in SVN. This is a tool that could be of interest for other Open Source project. Heikki suggested to make this code public.
• Action Bear: need to create a project page on the Wiki to cover that tool
• All of this will be ready by middle of this week (Bear needs to switch to Cosmo 0.4 by Wednesday)
• As soon as we have the hardware, we'll run the Tinderboxes for wx

Mac Intel

• We should get the hardware this week
• Once done, Bear will ship Portnoy here

Performance tests

• At risk right now for 0.7alpha3 : the perf tests we have hang often. Andi posted a fix last week.
• We still need new dataset, modify the existing tests
• Heikki will need help from QA on this
• We won't have enough background for alpha3 to evaluate performance progress backed by data

Tinderbox status and plans

• 3 machines off line right now
• 1 Linux machine needs to be updated to Ubuntu
• Memory upgrade has been done last week for Paniolo

CATS rewrite status

• Ready to go now
• Functional and perf tests work in this new framework
• Main differences: logger much easier to use, stability improved a lot, capture tracebacks consistently
• Mikeal to send an email announcement to the list
• Heikki concerned by the way the new timer works. Mikeal and Heikki to work out the difference with the old system.

Cosmo/Scooby

• This week will be busy for Cosmo 0.4 (BCM going in vacation next week)
• QA also will be busy with this, Mikeal to work on this
• Scooby will be over busy for another couple of weeks
• Adam close to make full automation on the Scooby back end testing

People

Sandboxes for interns / SoC^? students

• Xun, Ashkan, Markku have all sandboxes
• Need to do the same for Elliot and Ed
• Scripts to protect the Chandler tree are not turned on though
• Bear to get those scripts reviewed by the IT working group
• Bear need to update the list of people who have SVN access

New interns : Berook

• Will need a sandbox eventually
• Will work on interactive tests with Cosmo
• Working through docs write now

-- PhilippeBossut - 05 Jun 2006