On 27/09/2013 21:35, hawker wrote: > On 9/27/2013 8:47 AM, Philip Chee wrote:
>>> I cannot help but feel that a far more apposite question is >>> "by which future SM version can we expect that full regression >>> testing will become a normal part of the development cycle >>> and therefore be performed before a new version is released ?". >> The short answer: Never. Slightly longer answer. We are a 100% volunteer project. Our team is a small one. Historically QA is seen as a rather grungy soul destroying job. We don't get many volunteers interested in doing QA. MoCo has wage slaves that they can throw at QA. With a bunch of volunteers it's like trying to herd cats. > Out of curiosity in your opinion was the previous slower release system > more conducive to regression testing or was more done or is the issue > that there are less and less volunteers these days. I don't want this to Grammatical nitpick: fewer and fewer > turn into SM bashing thread but some of these unfixed and unfound > regression bugs are starting to be a PITA - more than it seems they were > in the past - seems TB/FF is getting them too so I'm wondering why. It's a mixed bag on one hand rapid release means getting new features in front of the users in a shorter period of time. However for this to work well a project that hangs off mozilla-central (Firefox, FirefoxOS) needs enough developers to handle the changes coming down the pike. So we in comm-central (SeaMonkey and to a lesser extent Thunderbird) are spending more time dealing with fallout from changes in mozilla-central and less time on working on new features. And sometimes things fall between the cracks and don't get noticed until users start complaining. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
