Re: [Nautilus-list] High level outline of planned client testing. Tellus what's missing,please. ;)

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Ali Abdin <ALIABDIN aucegypt edu> writes:

> 
> Dogfood means using the software that you wrote - whether you restart it 
> or not. So when you come in to work at Eazel, and you start your computer 
> and load up GNOME you get 'Nautilus' instead of GMC, and to start hacking 
> you would 'navigate' (using Nautilus) to your file then double-click it, 
> and it would open up your favorite editor :P That is dogfood testing.
> 
> When you want to play MP3s, use Nautilus. When you want to browse the 
> web, use Nautilus. That is the kind of testing I am talking about. 
> 
> Restarting Nautilus or not is a non-issue :)
> 

Ali,

We try to do that.

What Seth is saying is that some issues show up only if you run
Nautilus for a very long time, so you'll never see them if you restart
Nautilus very often. 

 - Maciej