Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] CVS and tests

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

I think we really need to form a real testing team that will do the
requested tests and more or we will have bad surprises for the release.

any volunteers?

should we ask on the normal ml?

Le ven 22/08/2003 à 16:57, Johnny Strom a écrit :
> Damien Sandras wrote:
> > Hello to all,
> > 
> > I've the feeling to become slightly boring, but we currently have a big
> > problem that will delay the GnomeMeeting development : no CVS testers.
> > 
> > Some people are doing a great job maintaining CVS packages for several
> > distributions. Those packages are built every day. It means that testing
> > GnomeMeeting CVS is something relatively easy to do.
> > 
> > You will easily understand that given my low amount of free time, I
> > can't code AND carefully test what I code. I have to rely on others.
> > Currently, very few people are testing, and I think that people are
> > completely ignoring my mails with tests to do.
> > 
> > Testing is something that can be really quick if you share the task. It
> > is also the most important task together with coding, because the
> > quality of the project depends on the way people tested it before
> > releases. You will notice that we had very few bug reports for 0.98,
> > because it was well tested. That is something very good for the
> > reputation of the project.
> > 
> > I have decided that I will STOP coding until I receive a mail with a new
> > testing crew that will be motivated to test and break GnomeMeeting
> > (testing what works doesn't make sense at all). I expect a list of 3 to
> > 5 persons that will share the tests and send me regular reports about
> > what they tested. Sorry, but that is very important, and I don't want to
> > continue to code new stuff that is not enough tested. Currently, the
> > main tester and packager has always been Kilian, but Kilian has also
> > other things to do and can't do everything alone.
> > 
> > Sorry for those I have offended with this mail,
> 
> 
> Hello
> 
> 
> Testing is very very very important, and I have not done my part I know 
> that, becouse I have had no time.
> 
> Now I could do some testing if I could get GM to compile :)
> 
> I will try again now with latest CVS.
> 
> 
> Cheers Johnny
> 
> 
> 
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