[htdig-dev] Re: Release plans?

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 05:08, Neal Richter wrote:

>   Mutiny?  Ok, Pirate Lachlan.

*grin*  I don't mean to step on the toes of those who have worked very=20
hard for many years.  Apologies to them if I was curt.

> I think the issue is that we don't
> have a plan to get it to the next step...

Good point.

> I suggest that on next Sunday Oct 12 we
> institute a 'code-freeze' and spend the remainder of Oct testing
> the code and call it 3.2RC1.  3.2RC1 goes out Sun Nov 2.

Good idea.  Do you think the  db.words.db  bug will be sorted out by=20
then?  Does anyone have access to Cygwin?

> Proposed plan:
>
>   Testing would consist of us figuring out some way to divide up
> test points.  The basic idea is to go through the process of
> changing the configuration file in reasonable ways and
> indexing/searching to formally  exercise   those verbs.  Ideally
> we'd like to test each of the approx 200 verbs.  A similar method
> for each executables command-line switches in needed.

Thanks for taking the lead on this, Neal.  The testing sounds like a=20
big job!

I'll start by tentatively taking attributes starting with A-D, and=20
then post a list of those which I *don't* think I'll be able to test.

Would it be worth writing extra scripts in .../test/ so that we can=20
re-test easily after bug fixes and before future releases?  Or would=20
that be more effort than it is worth?

>   The next step would be devoting ourselves to quickly handling
> bugs that come in from users from some specified period and release
> '3.2.1'.  I put this in so we don't leave all this work up to
> Gilles, our devoted maintainer of 3.1.X.

Hear, hear!!

>   Formal testing is yucky and delays us stamping it 3.2-final, but
> I'd rather spend a month doing this than see silly errors found by
> a score of endusers.

Absolutely.

>   The next step would comming up with a test plan, basically a list
> of test points so we can divvy up the work.  This needs to be
> complete by next weekend.

Aye, Aye, Cap'n!

Lachlan

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