Philip Chee wrote:
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 toGrammatical nitpick: fewer and fewerturn 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.
I tried using FF at work a week or so ago and find it to be absolutely horrible...so much so that I'll be sticking with IE in the workplace. I was really shocked...it was so buggy and unstable. Just continually crashed on me.
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
...I still have to ask the question - are these "new features" things users *want* or even *care* about. I'd be happy with just a flawless baseline.
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