Re: Announcing Binary Compatibility/Testing

["Timothy D. Witham" <wookie@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 15:16 -0700, Timothy D. Witham wrote:
> Announcing Binary Compatibility/Testing 
> 
>   In talking to end users, distributions, OSS developers and 
> large scale ISV's one issue kept popping up.  And that is 
> the fact that binaries keep breaking.  
> 
>   This is a real problem for large end users deploying Linux
> in that they like to be able to run/roll forward the same version
> of an application for 5 or so years.  They can do this with their
> legacy operating systems and we need to be able to do this 
> with Linux.
> 
> One of the big problems is that these ISV's release and test
> on a cycle that is measured in calendar quarters and of course
> the OSS cycle is measured in days.   The idea is to move
> testing of these binary applications upstream to match
> the OSS development cycle.  For this purpose I've started
> a mailing list to discuss how to accomplish this.   I've
> got slides for anybody who is interested. (PDF.)
> 
> http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/binary_sig
> 
> http://groups.osdl.org/sig  (Follow binary testing for slides)

   http://groups.osdl.org/sigs not sig - sorry

Tim

> 
> Let the flaming start. :-)
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
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