s/longer/lower

Lars Vogel <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 16. Apr. 2019, 14:01:

> +1 to Alex opinion. Our target should be to longer the entrance barriers
> for new contributors not increase them.
>
> Especially in SWT Win and Mac in which only very few committers are active.
>
>
>
> Aleksandar Kurtakov <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 16. Apr. 2019,
> 13:45:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 2:38 PM Niraj Modi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> In order to speed up the patch review cycle, we have framed a checklist
>>> of testing that's needed against an SWT patch submitted for review.
>>> Here is the complete list that needs to be associated with the patch:
>>>
>>>    - Results of the test snippet (if any) associated with that
>>>    specified bug.
>>>    - Results of the Widget's new behavior(if applicable) as tested with
>>>    various SWT examples: ControlExample.java, CustomControlExample.java and
>>>    BrowserExample.java
>>>    - For changes done to any specific widget, which all related SWT
>>>    snippets are covered from the list of: *SWT Snippets*
>>>    <https://www.eclipse.org/swt/snippets/#swtpatchtestingdetails>.
>>>    - When adding a new API always add new JUnit tests as separate
>>>    gerrit patch(as gerrit validation will only succeed when the new API is 
>>> in
>>>    master and an IBuild exists)
>>>    - For Windows only patch, which all operating systems are covered
>>>    like Windows7, Windows10(at times specific version of Win10 if 
>>> applicable)
>>>    - For MAC only patch, patch should be tested on latest OS version.
>>>    - For Linux only patch, which all GTK versions are covered (GTK3,
>>>    GTK4 or both) and also if applicable what all desktop managers(gnome,
>>>    wayland etc..) are covered.
>>>    - For patches across multiple platform, the patch should have been
>>>    tested on all affected platforms.
>>>    - Also if you expect some behavior change in Eclipse, always launch
>>>    Eclipse in self-hosted mode to verify the behavior.
>>>
>>>
>>> Same entry added to SWT FAQ page:
>>> https://www.eclipse.org/swt/faq.php#swtpatchtestingdetails
>>
>>
>> I appreciate the list but we have to tone it down. If all these things
>> are mandated before a patch is even looked at I can assure you that very
>> few people (if anyone) contributes back.  Currently a lot of these
>> verifications happen from reviewers/committers (at least for the GTK port)
>> as it is simply not reasonable to expect someone contributing on their free
>> time to invest in having all the complicated infrastructure to do these
>> checks.
>> So all these should become like - "Patches satisfying all the items on
>> the list may/will be reviewed with priority".
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Niraj Modi
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Kurtakov
>> Red Hat Eclipse Team
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