Call for papers - FOSDEM 2013

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Jeremy White wrote:
[...]
> A 'paper' can be a talk you wish to give, or a topic you think we should
> discuss.  As always, they should be relatively brief, and should
> emphasize discussion and collaboration.

I think we will want to talk about the new WineTestBot and its future 
developments. But I'm not sure it should be a FOSDEM talk.

WineTestBot is after all Wine-specific. Also I feel like all I have 
about the really interesting subjects(*) is questions which does not 
really make for a good presentation.

But at the same time I'd be interested in ideas from others and the 
FOSDEM people may have faced some of these issues already, or at least 
set up sophisticated automated testing systems and know what works and 
what doesn't.


(*) A particularly interesting one to me is testing untrusted code on 
real hardware (with possible approaches being direct access to a 
graphics card from within a VM, or network booting (plus remote 
controlled power switch?), Grub tricks). Another may be testing on 
non-VM friendly OSes, specifically Mac OS X, though that may just be a 
matter of doing a more in-depth Google search to find a legal and 
libvirt-compatible solution.

-- 
Francois Gouget <fgouget at codeweavers.com>