upgrade problemiu labu u kome radim se razvija novi sistem za distribuciju i proveru upgradea. Uglavnom, potreban nam je korpus realnih problema, sa kojima se administratori i korisnici cesto srecu. Detaljan opis je u nastavku. Da bi imali i bolji odziv, napravili smo i malu nagradnu igru.
Ako ste se sreli sa nekim od navedenih problema, jedva cekamo da ih saznamo.
Poz.
Nikola
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Hi,
In the scope of our research project, we're studying software upgrade
problems and looking for testimonies; we are also going to hold a
lottery to reward submitters of useful testimonies.
We're looking for information on software upgrades that result in
faulty or unexpected behaviors. More precisely, we are looking for
instances of the following problems:
- Upgrades that do not integrate correctly into the system (perhaps
because of linkage problems or other incompatibilities) or those that
cause one or more applications to crash after the upgrade.
- Upgrades that produce different results depending on the
configuration or environment in which they are installed (i.e., they
work for some users but not for others).
- Upgrades that affect the behavior of other applications (i.e.,
incompatibility, broken dependency, different outputs, etc).
- Packaging problems, especially those that aren't simple package
conflicts
- And of course, upgrades that are simply buggy.
If you've had similar problems in the past, we would highly
appreciate if you could reply to us and describe your experience with
as much details as possible.
To be useful, your testimony should include the following elements:
- A detailed description of the problem.
- The name and version number of the software being upgraded, the
operating system, distribution, kernel, and all applications involved.
- If possible, an explanation on how to reproduce the problem and a
link to websites or forums discussing the issue.
In order to recognize your effort in providing the testimony, we will
hold a lottery to select four winners who will each receive a $50 (50
american dollars) amazon.com gift certificate.
All useful testimonies will participate in the lottery. People
providing multiple useful testimonies will participate in the lottery
once for each testimony. The deadline to send testimonies is January
19th, 2007. Winners of the lottery will be informed shortly after.
Please direct all testimonies to:
[email protected]
Please note that our research project is a joint effort from two
different laboratories at EPFL (http://labos.epfl.ch and http://
nsl.epfl.ch in Switzerland), and the DARKLAB (http://
www.darklab.rutgers.edu) at Rutgers University. The project is not
affiliated with or sponsored by any commercial organization. The
results of our survey will be used to evaluate a new infrastructure
aimed at improving software deployment and testing. We will share
the survey results with the practitioner and research communities
through scientific papers.
We thank you very much in advance for your participation.
With best regards,
Nikola Knezevic
School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL
:*a programmer types in code, compiles it, runs it, and waits for
it to crash. Programs that don't crash are presumed to be running
correctly." - UNIX Haters Handbook
it to crash. Programs that don't crash are presumed to be running
correctly." - UNIX Haters Handbook
