Re: [OctDev] OctaveForge for project of the month

[Paul D. <sl...@pa...>]

Well,
I do not think a minor webpage layout issue disqualifies a project from
being selected as project of the month. The text is still in order and
searchable.

Can you suggest a fix for the web page? I do not know how the list is
generated, but maybe you can spot a css error or something.

Paul

2012-10-16 11:32, Sergei Steshenko skrev:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
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>> 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.
> 
> P.S. Kindergarten .....
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