From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:49014 "EHLO mail-wg0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750976Ab3AGRJV (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jan 2013 12:09:21 -0500 Received: by mail-wg0-f47.google.com with SMTP id dq11so9643244wgb.26 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:09:20 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <50EAF092.20907@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:39:20 +0530 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Open for contribution towards xfstests for btrfs From: Kiran Patil To: Eric Sandeen Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, bo.li.liu@oracle.com, xfs-oss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Kiran Patil wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:28 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On 1/7/13 4:18 AM, Kiran Patil wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> We have a team of 5 students who would like to contribute to btrfs >>> filesystem testing using xfstests. >>> >>> Is there space for them to contribute? >>> >>> If yes, to whom do they need to keep in touch for guidance. >> >> (cc: xfs list) >> >> Are you thinking of writing new tests, or doing more formal testing >> with the existing testsuite? Both would be useful. >> >> In particular, any time there's a bugfix, a regression test is helpful. >> Generic new tests of btrfs functionality would be good, too. >> >> I would suggest starting with a couple new tests, and cc: the xfs list >> for review. In the course of the review you'll get a sense of the various >> conventions used in xfstests, etc. >> >> Simply running xfstests over various btrfs configurations would also >> be useful, to be sure any regressions caught by existing tests don't go >> unnoticed. >> >> thanks, >> -Eric >> > Dear Eric and David, > > Thanks a lot for your inputs. > > We will work on them and soon we will start our work. > > Thank you, > > -Kiran Sorry, I forgot to say thanks to Liu and Arne. Thank you Liu and Arne for your suggestions. -Kiran