www/software devel.html

[Karl Berry]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Karl Berry <karl>       12/01/12 01:10:52

Modified files:
        software       : devel.html 

Log message:
        new section on platform-testers list

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/software/devel.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.46&r2=1.47

Patches:
Index: devel.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/software/devel.html,v
retrieving revision 1.46
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -b -r1.46 -r1.47
--- devel.html  5 Jan 2012 00:02:37 -0000       1.46
+++ devel.html  12 Jan 2012 01:10:45 -0000      1.47
@@ -190,6 +190,26 @@
 Nixpkgs manual</a>.</p>
 
 
+<h3 id="platform-testers">platform-testers: Manual portability testing</h3>
+
+<p>Another useful option for pre-release testing is the <a
+href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-testers";>platform-testers
+mailing list</a>.  Time permitting, the people on this list build
+pre-releases on a wide variety of platforms upon request.  (Additional
+volunteers for making the test builds are most welcome!)</p>
+
+<p>In contrast to the Hydra tool described above, the platform-testers
+list works essentially by hand, so each method has its advantages and
+disadvantages.  Also, the platform-testers crew has access to a wider
+variety of platforms and compilers than the Hydra setup.</p>
+
+<p>So, if you have a pre-release, you can write to the mailing list,
+providing (1)&nbsp;the url to the tarball, (2)&nbsp;the planned date of
+the release, and (3)&nbsp;the email address to which build reports
+should be sent.  The builds and reports are made by hand by the
+volunteers on the list.</p>
+
+
 <!-- If needed, change the copyright block at the bottom. In general,
      all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about
      verbatim copying.  Please do NOT remove this without talking
@@ -216,57 +236,14 @@
 
 <p>This page is licensed under a <a rel="license"
 href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/";>Creative
-Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.
-</p>
+Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States License</a>.</p>
 
 <p>Updated:
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-$Date: 2012/01/05 00:02:37 $
+$Date: 2012/01/12 01:10:45 $
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