[CCing pspp-dev] Hi Selma,
For general guidelines you should read the GNU Coding Standards which can be found at http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html Also the GNU Maintainers Doc at http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html contains pertinent information. Note in particular section 6 which talks about paperwork. You will need to talk to Ben about that before we can include your contributions, but you can start working on the task immediately. For all the existing tests, we use Autotest. Unless there is a compelling reason to the contrary, I think your tests should also use Autotest. The manual can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Using-Autotest.html#Using-Autotest In the source code, there is a directory called "tests" which contain the existing test suite. I suggest you look through some of the existing *.at files to get an idea of how it works. Also, please remember to post to pspp-dev rather than any individual developer when talking about the work. That way everyone knows what's going on, and you get a better chance of an informative reply. Good luck, John On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:04:47PM -0700, Selma Leathem wrote: Hello John, ? Some of this seems similar to a task I did long ago in python, where I parsed tables from files and worked with the data, only now?the data resides on the internet, which at first glance appears to be easily handled with such library resources as netdb.h ect... I'm just checking that you don't have any preset guidelines, ideas, ect.. that I should follow. ? Thank you, ? Selma ________________________________ From: John Darrington <[email protected]> To: Selma Leathem <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 12:58 PM Subject: Re: Interesting In Volunteering For Testing One thing that we need is some auto tests against the US statistical reference sets which are available at http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/ Perhaps you'd like to to that? -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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