I am always ready to run through the udig walkthroughs with geoserver; a formal pens up period would help me know when to test.
lately I have been testing as I release uDig which is not nearly as helpful. Jody On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:41 AM, Freeman, Aleda (EEA)<[email protected]> wrote: > I would be delighted to run my test suite and test some apps here during > the "pens up" period for each release. > Even if I wasn't planning to upgrade, it helps me to find any issues > that affect "my stuff" as early as possible. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Andrea Aime > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 11:13 AM > To: Geoserver-devel > Subject: [Geoserver-devel] GeoServer QA: asking users to help out? > > Hi all (devs and users lurking alike), > I'm writing this mail to see if we can, as a community, improve the > level of testing each GeoServer release gets before being released. > > GeoServer QA improve a lot since two years ago, we now have thousands of > tests running during the builds, continuous build servers checking each > commit, work is underway to run this checks on other OS/JVM, we run > quite a number of OGC CITE test suites before each release. > > Despite our best efforts some obvious bugs slip in. > What we need is some interactive testing, real world, against existing > applications, made by human beings. > People trying to configure new layers, test the release against their > production setup, check various client applications do work. > > We have quite a large user community out there (900+ subcscribers on the > users ml last time I checked), if only a few of them stepped in to > become testers it could make a large difference. Maybe someone is > interested in keeping GS working fine with uDig, or with QGis, or just > check their in house application works as expected. Someone else might > be interested in something more formalized, like manual test scripts to > be executed against a release candidate, but imho it would be better if > people would self organise and find some kind of testing they have an > interest into running. > > If some users are interested in doing this we could have a "pens up" > period of maybe 2-3 days before a release in which those adventurers > test nightlies and report regressions (to be fixed) and new bugs (to be > evaluated by severity). > > Developers, what do you think? > Users, I know quite some of you are lurking on this mailing list to > "check the pulse" of the development and see what's boiling in the pot. > This could be an occasion to step up your involvement and work for a > better GeoServer. > > Comments? > > Cheers > Andrea > > > -- > Andrea Aime > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > Expert service straight from the developers. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 > 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - > and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's > new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on > what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with > Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july > _______________________________________________ > Geoserver-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Geoserver-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-devel
