Searching for Testers was Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS site not geared for beginners...

[Christopher D. Clausen]

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Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@secure-endpoints.com> wrote:
> Rodney M Dyer wrote:
>> The developer builds and release
>> candidates have not been installing and have been having errors when
>> the AFS service started.
>
> I feel compelled to point out the fact that I have seen zero bug
> reports saying that OpenAFS would not install or that the service
> would not start (except on Windows Vista and that is because of bugs
> in Vista.)

I fill bug reports (although I haven't had any service crashes 
recently.)  Everything I filled against the Windows client (and possibly 
the Solaris server, but still testing) seems to be fixed in the latest 
fc.

> What would be really helpful is if there were a group of people who
> would volunteer to act as testers for each release.  If we had a
> volunteer for each platform who would agree to test each release with
> a few days and report back the results, that would be so beneficial to
> the community.  It would also allow the Gatekeepers to focus on other
> things.

I can (and have been trying to as often as possible) test clients on 
Windows 2003 Server (SP1 and SP2 beta x86) as they are released.  I do 
not currently have any 64-bit OSes running nor do I have any machines 
running Windows XP or Windows 2000.  If no one else has the time, I can 
setup test systems in a VM and make sure a basic install works, but I 
would not be actively using software in these VMs.  I would assume that 
testing in actual environments would be preferable.

Also, I typically use the Windows cmd prompt myself and don't notice GUI 
issues (which is why I didn't notice that the explorer extention was 
broken until a week ago.  Its been broken on my installs for several 
months.)

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Christopher D. Clausen
ACM@UIUC SysAdmin 

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