On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:02:49PM +1000, James Cameron wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:21:55AM +0100, Martin Dengler wrote: > > Thanks very much! If you have any comments on how I could have made > > it easier for you to test [...] > > I have serious suggestions.
Thanks. They are valued. > git wasn't on the laptop. I know - that's why my instructions said "[testers] willing to pull down a git clone". But I completely take your point that it's very onerous if one doesn't have git or cheap bandwidth. > If your changes were provided as an RPM then that may have widened the > test field. Then again, the sugar RPM on joyride-2286 is 1485430 bytes, > according to rpm -qi. Hmm...good point. I've always been less inclined to take an RPM because 1) it's a bit more opaque for such a small change; and 2) it seems, for me, to be in practice just as annoying to reverse - I have to figure out the previous version, have yum-utils installed for the source download tool, and use some rpm --force (or yum-utils for the downgrade plugin/tool) to downgrade. I wonder if anyone can point out any preference for RPMs or conviences I'm overlooking... > If your changes were provided as above as a tarball, the testers might > step over the threshold more willingly. Perhaps I should set up come git hooks so that when I commit to my d.l.o git, I automatically get a tarball of the diffs to the joyride tag. Then I could make a tarball available as easy as I could a git-clone. > Lastly, your test instructions were not clear. I had to figure out that > the screenshot behaviour was new. Next time, say "engage the frame, > hover over the symbol, look at the IP address, and the signal strength > bar". ;-) Thanks, good point. It's tempting to defer writing the |TestCase| (for trac) until later since I've been staring at this for a while, but (as you imply) it wastes testers' time if they're not familiar. > Oh, by the way, it worked, well done! Thanks for persevering and taking the time to write up useful suggestions. I'm not sure if lots of bugs deserve such a directed plea for testing but I hope that your feedback can also be of use to anyone else that wants to try to get help. > (The old behaviour, of showing a disconnect item, and a channel number, > for my local wireless network, was gone. I gather that is what you > intended.) Both are intended, but not universally desired :). See http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6995#comment:27 about the "Disconnect" item. The channel number has been requested once/twice now so perhaps I will add that back in and see how much Eben complains :). Martin
pgpIyQCDZO3JV.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel