On 3/6/08, Nathan Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <SNIP>> > > > Thanks for your investment in the test suites, and taking time to think > > about the improvements. > > > > The thing I struggle with is understanding the current system well > > enough to make a valuable contribution. > > > > It would be really good to have a newbies' guide to the test suites > > document on the website with step-by-step instructions (like the quick > > help for contributors document). > > I concur with sentiment. I don't get a chance to continually work with > the tool, so I start fresh every time I come back to and it seems > every time I have to stumble over a bunch of little problems for about > a day before getting it working again. I don't know if it's been > resolved, but the issues with running on Ant 1.7 instead of Ant 1.6.5 > we always painful.
Yep, the system wasn't tested with 1.7. Could you file a JIRA is case of troubles? Thanks, Stepan. > > -Nathan > > > > > While the architecture documentation would be interesting, I think many > > people work by running the simple case, then get dragged into > > investigating the complex cases when their needs require it. > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > > > > > > [1] http://harmony.apache.org/subcomponents/buildtest/index.html > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Stepan. > > > > > >
