Re: [Rails-devel] Bug fix: 1856 dit upgrade phases

[Frederick W. <fre...@go...>]

Stefan:

> At some point in time we should consider which of the many UI
> changes you did (and most of them I like) should be made the default
> option.

I leave this to the rails-devel community or the release manager since
my judgement would be too subjective. (I use all of the new
options...)
Putting new functionality to off by default is my standard way of
adding features to rails that I would like but others potentially
would not.

> Have you thought about automatically UI testing

I would advocate against building UI units (as regression tests) right
now because
- units would have to be adjusted too frequently (UIs are currently
altered far more frequently than the game engine)
- the number of regressions has been very low
- additional technology is required to do UI units right
- UI units wouldn't have helped with javac/jvm issues as those
reported in this thread

What is true is that the increasing level of UI variability (added
options) hurts our ability to achieve sufficient code coverage by
manual testing. But this would be alleviated if aforementioned point
(about including new UI options as default) is agreed upon.

-- Frederick