Re: [Cooker] Mandriva HCL testing

Romain d'Alverny|Mandriva said on Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:22:35PM +0200:

> You will not see that many interesting reports at first. One goal of this
> review precisely is: you check if you have hosts registered already, and
> then you do comment/rank them.

And what does it bring to have a host registered in it without comment ?
For example, I was looking at HP products, found a server I know well
(dl360 g5) And had that result:

 Home »
HP Proliant dl360 g5
(1 hosts)

    *
      Proliant dl360 g5
      OTHER (unknown)
          o

            Mandriva Linux 2008, 2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv
          o 1 hosts

How is it useful to someone, I don't really understand.
At the minimum, I wold expect a OK/NOK box somewhere, and then for those
interested the details per component.

> The key questions afterwise are: is it useful? is it simple to
> understand/use? what can be scratched out already? what is missing?

Currently, I don't find it useful. Isn't it a duplication of work
already done elswhere by other distros ? Shouldn't this topic be brought
to the LinuxFundation Distributions ML level and try to work on a common
set ?

Also you really need to standardize stuff: HP (not hp, hewlett-packard,
..) everything uppercase e.g., get the name from dmidecode/lshw, (and
add the lshw content to the web page), ...

Sorry to sound negative, I think the initiative is extremely useful, but
the current status is not what you should release.

Example of what competitors are doing:
https://hardware.redhat.com/show.cgi?id=148807
http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Servers
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesServersHp

Not that their content is accurate completely, but you have a clear idea
of what works and doesn't at a glance generally.

Bruno.
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