On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:40:22PM +0200, Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Samuli Suominen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:43:59 +0200 > > Vlastimil Babka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti: > > > > > Okay. So we can just agree it's better if the maintainer tells his > > > reasons when opening the bug, to spare the later clarifications? > > > > "It works. Do it." > > > > While I agree with you, and I think we are free to request > stabilization before the 30 days window, I also love when people give > details about the stabilization and not just a "do it". > > Emacs team's "test plans" [1] are the better example. Thanks to them > I'm able to save a _lot_ of time figuring out how a package works and > which features should test. > > Some details about changes since last stable are usually useful too. > In latest wgetpaste stabilization [2] we are told that this is a > trivial bugfix release fixing osl support, so we can just test osl > support and skip most of other tests. ++, this really helps the testing get done quicker. > Also, when a program needs a sample file with some obscure format, I > really appreciate when maintainers give a URL to a sample file so I > don't need to search for suitable files and can strictly focus on > testing. Agreed, the fonts team link to a page using the fonts in the package, which makes the package trivial to test. ++ to them. > > Of course, everyone could continue with the "do it" style, but keep in > mind that adding info like I described above can save a lot of AT work > and, as a result, make stabilization process faster. Most of the time I see the "doit" bugs is when the package has broad uses(i.e. coreutils and most things owned by base-system), and I generally don't have a problem when the package has many various uses that all had changes. > [1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/wiki/test%20plans > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211894 > > > Regards, > -- > Santiago M. Mola > Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > [email protected] mailing list
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