[Dev] sprints, or priorities

2015-10-20 Thread Bryan Richter
Hi all, I realized that it isn't exactly common knowledge what my goals and plans are. There's a lot to be done to make everything more transparent: not just for transparency's sake, but because it will help other people know where to put their precious time and efforts. I'm gonna start by just wr

Re: [Dev] GH-144 and the construction of the test suite

2015-10-20 Thread Bryan Richter
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:25:12AM -0600, Peter Harpending wrote: > > So, we need to do one of three things: > > 1. Ignore GH-144 for the time being. > 2. Figure out some hack so that the test in question passes. > 3. Rewrite the test suite so that silly things like that don't happen. 3. Is in fa

Re: [Dev] GH-144 and the construction of the test suite

2015-10-20 Thread Stephen Michel
IMO, 3 is the right thing to do. It may be more work immediately but I believe it'll serve us best in the long run, particularly as we'll need to do it eventually no matter what. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:25 PM, Peter Harpending wrote: Hey, y'all! I am Peter, pharpend in the channel. For a

[Dev] GH-144 and the construction of the test suite

2015-10-20 Thread Peter Harpending
Hey, y'all! I am Peter, pharpend in the channel. For a while, I've been spending some spare time working on GH-144: . I thought it was a trivial issue that would take 20 minutes to fix, but it turns out to be symptomatic of a much larger probl