I consider this ticket a blocker:
https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/issues/589

I realize that it's hard to replicate and we may need to see if the problem
crops up elsewhere for confirmation, but sporadic global destruction memory
errors isn't something I want released to the world.

David


On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Chad Granum <exodi...@gmail.com> wrote:

> _110 uploaded as expected, documentation changes only. Unless someone else
> reports something that NEEDS to be fixed, nothing will be touched until
> stable.
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Chad Granum <exodi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I do not consider Test-Stream to be experimental. I am also unhappy with
>> the churn that has occurred, and recognize that it makes things hard for
>> people who are spot-checking me, specially since it means starting over.
>>
>>    - Changes up to and including _105 were directly a result of the
>>    punchlist and QAH review.
>>    - Changes after _105 have to do with some concurrency things
>>    discovered in peer review (See my other email).
>>    - I consider the concurrency issue from _106->_109 fixed and done, no
>>    more churn should be coming from that
>>    - I have one more task on my todo list, a documentation audit, no
>>    code change expected, just POD.
>>
>> I do not feel that either of these parts of churn should have been put
>> off. These were not the results of me playing around, or with
>> experimenting. These were things that review found that needed to be
>> addressed before a stable release locked them into stone. There are plenty
>> of other things in branches and pull requests (from bulk88, and some from
>> me) that I refuse to merge before a stable release is made because they
>> would introduce unnecessary churn.
>>
>> Now, about easing the burden of spot-checkers:
>>
>> I think that the spot-checkers choosing to wait until an entire week (7
>> days) has gone by with no new dev releases, and no new commits to
>> stream/master before running their checks is perfectly reasonable. I tend
>> to address things within hours of finding out about them, so a week of no
>> churn is a really good measurement to go with.
>>
>> So, I hope to do my documentation audit today, and release _110 with ONLY
>> doc changes tonight. If there is no churn for 1 full week the spot checkers
>> can be sure I have nothing left to change and I consider it release-ready,
>> and they can do their spot checks.
>>
>> -Chad
>>
>
>


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