Hi Christian,
>>That's in fact a problem. Those tinderbox stati in EIS have been
>>introduced without extensive explanation.
>
> Wrong. It has been announced here and on at least the tools-ML.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03936.html
Okay, in this mail was more than I remembered. It could have been
phrased more explicitly ("ignore the error counts in all cases, only
look for colors"), but the idea to look for "red" was in fact there.
What's still missing in this announcement is the explanation of the
three items. What's in there is "if it's red, it's bad, and can have
three causes". What's *not* in there - and what is *needed* to actually
work with this data - is how to differ those three possible causes. I'm
am completely alone in deciding this.
> Since there has been no questions about it, one must assume that
> everyone did understand.
Come on. The world isn't as easy as this.
>>and I don't have a chance judging what
>>errors there actually are (the link to the tinderbox doesn't really
>>help, since the TB page doesn't show me the actual errors,
>
> Of course it does.
> [explanations]
Thanks.
That's the first explanation about TinderBox I ever read here in the
lists. This should have come earlier, and there should be some of those
in the Wiki, or in some other place where people *not* knowing TB before
can easily find it. You cannot seriously expect everybody to click
through all promising links in a TB page, to find out what you explained
here.
>>Ergo: Tinderbox in EIS is not really useful ATM, sorry.
>
> And again I start shaking my had and start to get really sad.
>
> If you don't understand about tinderbox, why don't you ask for an
> explanation?
Because I underestimated the mail? Personally, I could even say I'm a
developer, so it could have been I didn't read the announcement at all
(yes, I'm reading [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I'm skipping a lot).
> Why do you ignore it instead and tell that it is useless?
Because I don't know that and - more important - *how* I, as a
developer, am expected to use it.
(and yes, perhaps I should have made clearer that my mail was written as
developer, not as QA.)
Ciao
Frank
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