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Message-Id: <1373336055.27613.21@driftwood>
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 21:14:15 -0500
From: Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Request for volunteers
On 07/08/2013 02:40:38 AM, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net> [2013-07-04 13:05:06 -0500]:
> > >5. Rigorous testing. My ideal vision of this role is having
> somebody
> > > who takes a look at each bug fix committed and writes test cases
> > > for the bug and extrapolates tests for possible related bugs
> that
> > > haven't yet been found. And who reads the glibc bug tracker so
> we
> > > can take advantage of their bug reports too.
> >
> > Is the Linux Test Project relevant?
> >
>
> most of their tests are for kernel related features
> some of them are pretty outdated (stress testing floppy io..)
> and not very high quality (mostly written by ibm folks)
> there is a large set of 'openhpi' tests and the entire
> posix_testsuit (already audited), there is a fair amount
> of network tests, mostly sctp and nfs
>
> it seems a bit messy and not quite what we want
The Linux Foundation was formed by the merger of OSDL with the Linux
Standards Group to form "a voltron of bureaucracy", so I'm not
surprised their actual testing and standardization functions
essentially stopped.
The purpose of OSDL was to provide Linus Torvalds with a salary
independent of any specific company. Unfortunately, the amount of money
companies contributed to it was well above Linus's needs, they went on
to justify _having_ so much money by getting offices and hiring people,
meaning instead of a trust fund now they needed more money on a regular
basis.
So they set themselves up as "the face of Linux" for corporations the
same way AOL set itself up as the face of the internet for dialup users
in the 1990's, and promised that they could translate between suit and
geek. And they got very very good at talking to suits (where the money
comes from), and are baffled by the _existence_ of hobbyists. (People
do open source without geting paid? Inconceivable! They can't possibly
be relevant to the process, they're just hangers-on mooching off our
extensively funded work. Free riders we tolerate for historical
reasons...)
So yeah, not surprising if LSB became a corporate rubber stamp. Sad,
but not surprising.
Rob
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