On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 05:08, Neal Richter wrote: > Mutiny? Ok, Pirate Lachlan.
*grin* I don't mean to step on the toes of those who have worked very hard for many years. Apologies to them if I was curt. > I think the issue is that we don't > have a plan to get it to the next step... Good point. > I suggest that on next Sunday Oct 12 we > institute a 'code-freeze' and spend the remainder of Oct testing > the code and call it 3.2RC1. 3.2RC1 goes out Sun Nov 2. Good idea. Do you think the db.words.db bug will be sorted out by then? Does anyone have access to Cygwin? > Proposed plan: > > Testing would consist of us figuring out some way to divide up > test points. The basic idea is to go through the process of > changing the configuration file in reasonable ways and > indexing/searching to formally exercise those verbs. Ideally > we'd like to test each of the approx 200 verbs. A similar method > for each executables command-line switches in needed. Thanks for taking the lead on this, Neal. The testing sounds like a big job! I'll start by tentatively taking attributes starting with A-D, and then post a list of those which I *don't* think I'll be able to test. Would it be worth writing extra scripts in .../test/ so that we can re-test easily after bug fixes and before future releases? Or would that be more effort than it is worth? > The next step would be devoting ourselves to quickly handling > bugs that come in from users from some specified period and release > '3.2.1'. I put this in so we don't leave all this work up to > Gilles, our devoted maintainer of 3.1.X. Hear, hear!! > Formal testing is yucky and delays us stamping it 3.2-final, but > I'd rather spend a month doing this than see silly errors found by > a score of endusers. Absolutely. > The next step would comming up with a test plan, basically a list > of test points so we can divvy up the work. This needs to be > complete by next weekend. Aye, Aye, Cap'n! Lachlan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht://Dig developer DownUnder (http://www.htdig.org) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ ht://Dig Developer mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
