Re: Linux Incompatibility List

[cliff white <cliffw@osdl.org>]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 21:45:27 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sul, 2004-08-22 at 21:48, David N. Welton wrote:
> > A "compatibility list" is going to be pretty big, and hard to keep up
> > to date.  My thinking is that keeping track of a few notable things
> > that don't work is easier than running after all the stuff that does.
> 
> Its already been kicked around on the Fedora list to actually build such
> a database automatically. I've seen similar Debian proposals a long time
> ago. That means some time post install you'd let the user
> fire up a system report tool which would ask things like
> 
> 	"Does sound work"
> 
> and then fire off PCI id/rating info to a central site. That would help
> deal with the data collection much as the Debian folks collect package
> popularity statistics.
> 
> > I suppose some sort of vote system could be put in place so that the 1
> > guy who didn't get the hardware to work gets outvoted by the 10 who
> > did, but there is more incentive to hit the button when you are
> > irritated than when everything 'just worked'.
> 
> If you get enough data then the deviation tells you how varied and how
> reliable the opinions are likely to be, all this implies databases not
> WIki however
> 
This sounds very interesting indeed. We (OSDL) have been talking about how to
extend our testing into the ISV space, and how to supply useful data. This 
type of post-install, post-test 'i look like this, and this runs' data capture
would be real useful, especially if we could capture software info also.
Who else was interested in this?
cliffw

> 
> Alan
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