November Status

November 21, 2006 - We continue to generate compile summaries for each new release of the mainline kernel via our Patch Lifecyce Manager (PLM) system. A summary of these statistics can be found at http://www4.testing.osdl.org/summary. We've also began generating driver specific compile summaries for the various drivers we are monitoring. These can be found at http://www4.testing.osdl.org/summary/drivers.html

November 8, 2006 - Another OSDL Desktop Linux survey was recently introduced (November 6, 2006) and there have been over 2000 responses already. One question asked in the survey was to rate the most critical areas that the Desktop Work Group should focus on for 2007. At the top of the list was Open Drivers. Seems like everyone has something to say about it. But if you want to see the list itself, take the survey. After completing the survey, there is a link you can click to see the current results. Go ahead, take the survey.

August Status

August 23, 2006 - The August 18, 2006 blog posting mentioned the creation of a new mailing list and wiki to continue further discussions that came out of the Open Source Testing Summit that was held in San Francisco. For those of you who are interested, information regarding the mailing list can be found here: https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/test-tools. The initial wiki is located here: http://developer.osdl.org/dev/test_tools.

August 18, 2006 - LWE SF held two sessions which were of interest to the Open Drivers Project. The first was an Open Source Testing Summit. It was a 3 hour session consisting of ~2hrs of 10min lightning talks from various individuals within the testing community and ~1hr of open discussion. Projects like Coverity, Autotest, Crucible, ABAT, STP etc. were all able to come together to discuss what each project was focusing on and where we could all begin collaborating. It was decided to begin a new mailing list and wiki to continue further discussions. The second session was the Open Drivers Sessions. IT was a 2hr block consisting of a quick project update followed by an open forum of discussing future project goals: document translations and connecting with the scsi community about the testing we are doing. Although the attendance was low, we gained good feedback from the audience.

August 1, 2006 - The Open Drivers Summit took place last week in Beaverton, OR. The speakers covered a wide variety of topics ranging from legal issues, to managing open source projects, to developers' perspectives when working in open source. Copies of the presentations can be found here: http://developer.osdl.org/dev/opendrivers/summit2006. We hope to have the audio of the presentations posted there shortly as well. On the driver testing front, we keep making good progress. Some of us were able to attend OLS and struck up some good conversations and made good contacts with other individuals in the testing community. We plan on working more with the autotest project in the future. In the meantime we have PLM successfully doing automated compile tests of the latest kernel.org mainline tree as well as the latest scsi misc and rc-fixes branches. We then have STP automatically kicking off tests against each of the new releases. We've also got the old linstab page back up and showing some of the latest PLM compile results. We're also generating a summary page for some of the latest tests we're running: http://www4.testing.osdl.org/odt_results.html