Title A modular lintian-like CD-image testing tool
Student Martín Hernán Ferrari
Mentor Steve McIntyre
Abstract
The Debian Project routinely builds CD and DVD images of specific distributions, like Debian stable, Debian testing and Debian unstable. Each one of those in different "flavours" that fit different needs (business card, net-inst, full archive) and for different target architectures [1]. Also there are images for various Custom Debian Distributions like Skolelinux, and even live-CD systems.
Many of those images are built weekly or even daily, this results in a *lot* of ISO files.
As verifying that the built images work is currently a manual process, there is too much work spent in this task. Also, images meant for a release need more presumption of correctness, as it would be very bad publicity to ship a broken image.
To alleviate this situation, a modular lintian-like CD-image testing tool is proposed.
¡¡Siiiií!! ¡Mi proyecto para el Google Summer of Code, que me hizo comer las uñas las últimas semanas, fue aprobado!
Una gran responsabilidad, pero voy a poner toda mi fuerza en esto. Van a ser tres meses interesantes. Por lo pronto, voy a pedir que me agreguen al Planet Debian, para ir reportando el avance; y a registrar un BoF en la Debconf, donde pienso mostrar como voy y pedir feedback a los interesados.
First post for Debian Planet. It was about time that I decided to finally post here 
But now, I have a good excuse: I've been selected to work in the Google Summer of Code for Debian! Yay!! So this feed will be used to post about it and keep the community informed. Stay tuned!
I've just bought my tickets to EDI, I'll be arriving on June the 9th in the afternoon. So finally I'll be in debcamp too, for the first time. My bank account has a net negative today, but I'm happy :). Also, I'm planning to spend about 5 days around in the UK after DebConf, I expect to share that with other fellow debianites (wiki page).
See you in EDI!