Hello, the "community bonding period" is over for quite some time now, but as I have previously said in my application, I (unfortunately) won't be able to start my GSoC until the 8th of June.
So far, I managed to build Tails in a virtual machine, in a tmpfs, using a proxy (to avoid spamming Debian's mirrors); but also using vagrant[1]. It takes me only a couple of minutes to build Tails on my machine, which is a good news.
About the testing environment now: It seems like liveCD testing is not something that interest people very much. The autotesting repo[3] of debian-live is a 404, and even if it wasn't, the documentation is lacking. The "mainstream way" for doing system-wide/vm/liveCD tests is autotest[4], but it seems completely overkill to me.
This is why I am currently playing around with lettuce[2], a nice Python-powered BDD tool.
Hopefully, my next status update will be more consistent/interesting.
Have a nice day
1. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/#index1h1 2. http://lettuce.it/ 3. http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-live/autotesting.git 4. http://autotest.github.com/
-- jvoisin