Status 2009-03-23

[Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat dot com>]

= Work done last week:

      * Time spent on elfutils: ~80%

      * Mass testing.  My debuginfo tree got somehow screwed up, and the 
test failed on file-not-found errors quite often.  Some files that were 
supposed to be .debug.bz2 were plain .debug.  Eventually got fed up with 
having to manually compress fails and re-launch the test each time 
around, and wrote a small script that found all such files and zipped them.

        ** In first round, I was focusing on catastrophic failures.  The 
test yielded two if I recall.

        ** In second round, I was actually looking at error messages. 
At the beginning, almost literally all packages had failures.  I 
revisited each case that I found, and either confirmed that the file is 
indeed buggy, or fixed dwarflint otherwise.  Messages that were too 
frequent ended up in exclusions file.  I used that to grep -vf dwarflint 
output.

        ** By friday afternoon, after fixing a handful of bugs, I had 
dwarflint in a sort of stable point, where it didn't file thousands of 
(bogus) failures per hour, so I let it run and went home.  The test 
eventually finished with "too many symlinks" error, and 31998 filed 
failures.

= Work scheduled next:

      * Expected time spent on elfutils: 80%.
      * Finish mass testing.
      * Roland, what's the next big item on our list?

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