Thanks for pointing this out Luigi,
I changed the page title to include the term QGIS and that led to a new
URL. I just fixed it with an alias, so everything works again.
Best,
Matthias
On 10/11/2014 02:10 PM, Luigi Pirelli wrote:
Appears the way to donate but appear also this message:
Page not found
The requested page
"/10102014-1046/crowdfunding-initiative-automated-testing" could not
be found.
regards, Luigi Pirelli
On 10 October 2014 13:58, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.k...@gmx.ch> wrote:
Dear QGIS users,
I started a crowd-funding campaign for automated unit tests in QGIS. Please
consider to help funding this project in order to improve the software and
code quality in the long run. More details can be found on the project page
and in the text below.
http://blog.vitu.ch/10102014-1046/crowdfunding-initiative-automated-testing
I plan to improve the quality of QGIS sustainably by introducing the
automatic execution of test procedures which will inform responsible
developers automatically in case of failure. Your support for this project
is highly welcome and you can contribute to make QGIS more stable in the
long run. To implement the necessary changes as well as repairing currently
broken tests a minimal amount of CHF 5000.- will be required. The following
paragraphs will describe the project in more detail.
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In the last years, QGIS matured from a hobby project to a serious
alternative with a broad scope of possibilities and a great potential.
With the constant addition of new features new possibilities have been
created and still are created. Every new feature means changes to the source
code of the software and is a potential source of errors.
There are possibilities to automatically detect errors. This is done by
executing a series of operations with known result. If a operation does not
return the desired (known) result something went wrong and it needs to be
evaulated why.
QGIS has currently over 100 different tests. However, these are not run
regularly and nobody realizes when tests fail. This led to the situation,
that at the moment approximately 2/3 of the tests do not report success and
nobody knows why and since when.
I intend to take the following measures to ensure that in the future tests
no longer can silently fail:
* tests will be run on all source code changes in master (main development
branch)
* tests will be run on all pull requests (changes being evaluated for
integration in master)
* if tests fail the responsible developers will be notified by mail
* with symbols, the current state of the tests will be indicated
With this system it is possible to react instantaneously when tests fail and
to revert the responsible changes or to not even integrate these.
To make sure that this system works and is accepted, it is important to
start with a working suite of tests. How much time it takes to fix all tests
is difficult to say. The plan is therefore to fix as many tests with the
available funds and to disable the rest of the tests in the first time.
Therefore additional funds that are provided on top of the required minimum
CHF 5000.- will be very welcome for additional working tests.
It would be great if this crowd-funding effort could help to get this
project to fly.
Kind regards,
Matthias Kuhn
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