On 9/27/07, Travis Snoozy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 10:33:19 -0700, "Lloyd Budd" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > The data in the tables was necessary to debug problems with migration > > to the new tables. > > Would renaming the tables after the conversion have been sufficient > (e.g., it was a matter of not losing the contents)? That might have > better facilitated the needs of both test and dev, since anything that > was going to break in the absence of the tables would have.
That would have been a brilliant idea! > But more important: what would have been the proper way to get that idea > injected higher up in the chain? It would have just been a matter of presenting the idea here. > I knew of the schema change, but I > wasn't affected by it, so I didn't actually know that the tables > weren't dropped after update before RC1 (which precluded me making any > suggestions in time to be useful). Is there a test-lead-like person > keeping an eye on this kind of stuff (or does "digital entomologist" > mean you're the guy qualified for that ;)? In theory I'm the test-lead-like person, but in reality I'm stretched really thin. Hopefully, as WordPress continues to mature and the number of people participating increases, we all have a better opportunity to deal with things from a higher level. People are always putting forward opportunities to collaborate. There has been a few threads related to test automation, but few responses that actually present how they have done something with the work. Lend more than our voices, -- Lloyd Budd | Digital Entomologist | | Skype:foolswisdom WordPress.com | WordPress.org | Automattic.com _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
