2009/1/21 Philip Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@bolthole.com">phil@bolthole.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:11:55AM +0100, Peter Bonivart wrote:<br>
>...<br>
> Not only will maintainers know better what is and is not<br>
> happening with their packages, I think it will encourage testing as<br>
> well.<br>
<br>
a side note: maintainers already tend to "know what is happening" with<br>
their packages already. Often within a few hours; usually within a day.<br>
<br>
As far as testing goes:<br>
Across-the-board testing doesnt happen because people write a fancy interface.<br>
Testing happens only when people *commit* to spending a WHOOLE bunch of<br>
their own time to do so.<br>
<br>
I think it makes sense that when, and IF, people step up to doing testing,<br>
that *those* people should get to design the interface they are going to<br>
use.<br>
<br>
Contrariwise, if no-one is willing to commit to doing testing, it makes no<br>
sense to spend a bunch of time designing an interface that no-one is going<br>
to use.<br>
If someone does decide to volunteer to test in the future, they may well<br>
toss it out the window and write their own. So it's waste of time and<br>
effort to write one now, before someone commits to doing testing.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">People test my packages before release. I get feedback and I've made plenty of changes in response to this. Most of this came from you Phil, but I got a lot from other people too, including one report only last week from the package I rolled up a week before.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">An entirely or largely automated test regime would reduce or eliminate the load on volunteers of course.</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Gary</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br><br>-- <br>Gary Law<br>Email: <a href="mailto:garylaw@garylaw.net">garylaw@garylaw.net</a><br>
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