On 10/17/07, mabshoff > recently we have started using [tested by ..] in trac. This seems to > have lead to some misunderstanding, see > http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac/ticket/910 > [but I have fixed that now, see check out the log toward the end] > > The idea behind [tested by ...] is not that the original author of a > patch tested it with "-testall" [that ought to be generally assumed I > hope], but that it was tested with the combined other patches targeted > for a particular milestone, in order to flush out side effects with > the other patches. For 2.8.7 Carl Witty volunteered to do that, so > that is why a lot of the patches for 2.8.7 carry the byline [tested by > cwitty]. Hope that clears things up, I plan to spend at least some
It was something he and I just made up on the fly when working on the 2.8.7 release. It's not surprising it is causing confusion, though. Thanks for clarifying our intention, which you understand correctly. > time during Bug Day 4 to get the text from my presentation about trac > from SD5 ready for inclusion in the documentation. > > Does anybody have suggestions where this should go? At least some of > it should end up in the wiki to have a page where I keep a log of what > has been changed and updated. I think something should also go in the programming guide: http://sagemath.org/doc/html/prog/index.html You can send patches against that by editing SAGE_ROOT/devel/doc/prog/prog.tex and doing hg_docs.ci() William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
