On 8 Jan 2009, at 5:13 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Christiaan Hofman >> <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 6 Jan 2009, at 3:41 AM, Gregory Jefferis wrote: >>>> I'm sorry to hear that, but I can understand that the time >>>> commitment could >>>> get too heavy - I count 4764 svn commits in my checkout. I wonder >>>> though if >>>> you could scale back your efforts to concentrate on core issues >>>> while >>>> leaving fixes for stuff you don't use to others - >>> >>> Which others? > > Just as a note, it might be easier for others to contribute if some > ground rules were agreed on (maybe better late then never...). I quit > because development is anarchic: anyone can rewrite anyone else's > code, > regardless of whether it's a work-in-progress, so it's difficult to > build or design anything long-term. Additionally, there is no review > process, just watching the commit list and arguing after the fact. > > The DiskImage build script has the following comment: > > ## If you feel an undying urge to improve this, > ## discuss it with the poor slob that does the > ## releases first (and test it thoroughly)! > > ...because I finally got pissed off over repeated changes that broke > my > release process (long ago when I was doing releases :). This is part > of the reason I think unit testing would be good, because it > introduces > some additional accountability in the process instead of putting the > onus on other developers to watch the commit list. > > FWIW, > Adam >
I'm not saying it would not be useful. Quite to the contrary. But I think that at this point building a useful set of unit tests would be a huge amount of work. And having unit tests for just a few incidental aspects would have very limited use, especially as there's no real development cycle in use. Have the existing unit tests ever been used in practice? So I seriously doubt it would be worth the effort, at this point. That's basically what I'm saying. Of course, that also depends on how one would look at the future of the project. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
