Re: Linux Incompatibility List

From: cliff white (cliffw_at_osdl.org)
Date: 08/23/04

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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

    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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