Re: [OctDev] OctaveForge for project of the month

[Sergei S. <ser...@ya...>]

----- Original Message -----

> From: Carnë Draug <car...@gm...>
> To: Octave Help <hel...@oc...>; Octave Forge <oct...@li...>
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 2:52 AM
> Subject: OctaveForge for project of the month
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> SourceForge has a "project of the month" voting pool going on which
> includes OctaveForge. If you guys want to vote, the link for the post
> and pool are
> 
> http://sourceforge.net/blog/potm-vote-201211/
> http://twtpoll.com/vvntro
> 
> Note 1: it requires a twitter account (it sucks, I already complained)
> Note 2: Octave Forge is listed as GNU Octave repository. I have also
> complained about this and they have fixed it on their blog. However
> they could not change the name on the voting after it started (the
> name is incorrect because the description of the project on
> SourceForge was also incorrect. That has already been fixed).
> 
> Carnë
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Absolutely and definitely _____no_____.

I.e. I am wholeheartedly _against_.

Here are the reasons:

1) visit http://octave.sourceforge.net/functions_by_package.php and _patiently_ scroll down;
2) if you are patient enough, you'll notice that the text left margin moves to the right, i.e. at the top the text is left-justified as it should be, bu then the text moves to the right;
3) when I was taught by various people how to develop and test the code, I was explained that number of test cases is typically (quite) big, but at least _obvious_ corner cases should be tested, and the number of obvious corner cases is typically _much_ less than the full number of test cases;
4) in this particular instance there are just _two_ corner cases: top and bottom, and the developers didn't bother to check even them.

So, because of _gross_ disrespect for very basic QA guidelines on the side of the developers I am fully opposed to nominating this project for "project of the month".


Regards,
  Sergei.

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