Re: TARBALLS DUE: GNOME 2.12.2 Stable Release

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 12/2/05, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com> wrote:
> There is a tracker bug for adding DogTail tests to Tinderbox here:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318531
>
> There is also a Gnome CVS module
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/dogtail-tests/
>
> though right now it only has gcalctool and gedit tests in it.  I think
> we should try to push module maintainers to write tests. Perhaps we
> should make a minimum of tests required at some distant point in the
> future.  In any case it would also make a great place for newbies to
> start contributing to Gnome.

i think if there were a good step-by-step tutorial the bugsquad could
probably be talked into writing some of these. I have no idea if such
a tutorial exists :)

Luis

> On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:50 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 14:03 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > > Sweet, thanks!  Just as a heads up, the instructions to do so are up
> > > at http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/MakingARelease; about 95% of
> > > the work (smoketesting on your testing machine) can be tried out
> > > anytime without any problems.  If you have some spare time between now
> > > and then, it may be useful to give it a try and see if things work out
> > > smoothly for you or whether the parts of the documentation I wrote up
> > > are still too cryptic.  ;-)
> >
> > Has anyone in the release team played with LDTP or Dogtail?
> >
> > I'm sure that both Novell and Red Hat already have a bunch of tests ---
> > those would be perfect for automated smoke testing.
> >
> >   Federico
>
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> John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>
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