On Nov 4, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Martin's point is generally very valid, but in the case of the > 2.2.0 release remarkably few of the bugs found since release were > new in 2.2.0. > One thing we have learnt is that none of the testers seem to look > at HTML help (which accounts for 2 of the 4 2.2.0-only bugs I > counted). > > What we need most is persistent help in testing each release, > especially on unusual platforms. How do we `incentivize' that?
I suspect that in the particular case of OS X the problem was probably visibility - it was the first time ever that nightly OS X binaries were available during alpha/beta phase (afaict), but I'm not sure how many people knew about it. I think posted about it on R-SIG- Mac during some discussion, but maybe I should have announced it more specifically somewhere. I'm, not even sure whether there was a link from the main page on CRAN. I would think that OS X users are more likely to rely on binaries, so the above is more relevant than on other platforms. >> - being listed as helpful person in R's 'THANKS' file >> {but that may not entice those who are already listed}, >> or even in the NEWS of the new relase >> or on the "Hall of fame of R beta testers" The latter sounds good to me, although I'm not sure how many of our users are striving for fame ;). Cheers, Simon ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel