Release Quality Control

[Michael S. Zick]

On Thursday 17 April 2003 12:28 pm, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Joe Buck wrote:
> > > When the RM puts out a prerelease tarball, this should be interpreted
> > > as a request that the keepers of the secondary platforms do tests,
> > > ASAP.
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>
> I don't know if gcc-announce is the appropriate place to make these
> announcements
> but if it isn't, then a dedicated list for "please test announcements"
> might
> be useful.  Limit posts to the RMs.
>
Perhaps two ways could be used -

1) An (auto?) notice sent to the mailing list(s) similar to the "snapshot"
notices.  (auto? - well, triggered by to RM, just auto to the right places.)
That should handle those with a casual interest in testing (list followers).

2) An (auto?) notice sent to (private e-mail of) of those that have asked
the RM to include them on such a (RM only access) list.
That should handle those with a need for "test it now" notices and 
might be otherwise too busy to follow a ML.

Mike
PS: The "CD-ROM of the CVS, rsync image" project to help kickstart
new regression testers isn't dead here;
I am just painfully slow in getting it done.