Couldn't we use the principles of Test Driven Development as an approach to get and keep the trunk "stable"? I plea for more and better use of unit tests and not to commit code that does not pass the tests. It also makes it easier for reviewers to do what they have to do: just review and not test.
Introducing TDD in my company greatly reduced the amount of bugs and made use create new releases with very little effort. I understand that controlled environment is different from a community driven project so I'm curious what your opinions are. -Jeroen BJ Freeman wrote: > > Short answer trunk is not stable. That is when you are only doing bug > fixes not adding new features. Some new Features are being added in > sections. > 1) can't mix and match 4.0 and trunk. 4.0 uses 1.42 trunk uses 1.5+ > 2) You can go over the commit ML and get each commit to see what is > changed. Yes the committers are suppose to check each change. However > with the size of ofbiz, that usually is focused, on the area the patch > effects, not all of ofbiz. > Some committers seem to add code then do testing. > when you find a bug test on the demo server, if you can replicate it > there put in a jira. > http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html > > Ritesh Trivedi sent the following on 10/27/2008 7:25 PM: >> Hi, >> >> Let me first acknowledge that I made a mistake from the beginning to go >> with >> the latest from the trunk and not 4.0 which was the stable release. I >> have >> not tried 4.0 again to see the differences between 4.0 and the latest. >> Besides I have a few relatively minor changes that I have made into my >> local >> ofbiz copy. >> >> Now the problem... I have been updating the latest since then to get the >> fixes for the things broken due to new checkins and i am going in >> circles, >> new patches seem to break a few other things and so on. >> >> Question is - How carefully are checkins being made/accepted? (just out >> of >> curiosity) and does anyone know of a version - still close to latest that >> is >> relatively stable? >> >> Thanks > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Stable-trunk--tp20200392p20229681.html Sent from the OFBiz - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
