On Fri, Feb 20 2009 13:29:40 +0000, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 2:46 AM, DavePawson <[email protected]> wrote: >> If only commercial software vendors were as responsive as this! > > Unfortunately, I think praise isn't warranted here. Commercial > software vendors would not have had this problem because they use > proper release management techniques and have automated tools to > ensure their software releases work on all supported platforms.
There are many open source tools available for testing, as you well know. Even the FO processing can be tested [2]. I don't know of any open source continuous-integration tools, but they probably exist, and at least one of the commercial tools is free for open source [1]. > DocBook-XSL does not have these resources and instead relies (perhaps > too heavily) on the community to test the (current set of) releases, > especially as the community grows and the pool of developer time > shrinks. Sadly, I can't help with the pool of developer time. Regards, Tony Graham [email protected] Director W3C XSL FO SG Invited Expert Menteith Consulting Ltd XML, XSL and XSLT consulting, programming and training Registered Office: 13 Kelly's Bay Beach, Skerries, Co. Dublin, Ireland Registered in Ireland - No. 428599 http://www.menteithconsulting.com -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- xmlroff XSL Formatter http://xmlroff.org xslide Emacs mode http://www.menteith.com/wiki/xslide Unicode: A Primer urn:isbn:0-7645-4625-2 [1] http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/buy.jsp#openSource [2] http://xmlroff.org/wiki/TestingModule --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
