Re: [Wsjt-devel] WSJT-X Testing & Documentation Priority

[Joe T. <jo...@pr...>]

GM Greg,


On 2/3/2014 9:23 AM, Greg Beam wrote:
> I see allot of different Rpt v.x.x being displayed for the various
> applications. Somewhere in the WSJT-X r35xx range this seems to have
> changed, as the version has disappeared. Is this due to reporting
> being brought in house or maybe JT-Alert-X impacts this also?

Somewhere around WSJT-X r3500 we stopped sending spots to PSK Reporter 
using the DLL written by Philip Gladstone, author of PSK Reporter, and 
started using our own code written by Edson, PY2SDR.

> The reason I ask is, would it be possible to add the reporting
> OS/Agent, Darwin, Windows, Linux etc, to the psk-reports and have it
> render in usage statistics? I think this could help prioritize tasks
> that have the largest impact on the user base, even though everyone
> does not use the psk-reporter function.

Yes, I think this should be possible.  Maybe Edson has an opinion.

> In the meantime, I'm adding four additional VM's to to test with,
> FreeBSD, Arch, Fedora and Slackware. According to Distro-Watch, Mint
> has become fairly popular, but that should follow along with Debian
> and Ubuntu in terms of installation, package maintenance and source
> build testing. According to IDC, Gartner etc, WinXP is second to Win7
> but surely that will change when XP goes EOL in a few months time. I
> suspect, in the not so distant future, more issues will arise form
> Win7/8 than XP. Should we be focused on Win7 as the primary use platform?

Yes, I think the majority of our user base is Win7/8.

> Would it make sense to have a blueprint of sorts for testing a core
> list of OS / Distro's combinations before a formal release? Obviously
> this should be a short list, but, could provide some valuable data to
> developers.

Sounds reasonable to me.

	-- Joe, K1JT