On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 20:52, C. Scott Ananian <csc...@laptop.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>> Because of this specific commit, file transfers have been broken since
>> early this year and it's obvious that this code wasn't tested at all:
>>
>> http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/11828796
>>
>> Given the current poor state of our testing efforts, committers should
>> be extra careful about this.
>
> Out of curiosity: what was the failure?  It's not obvious to me, in
> reading the patch; I can see how problems wouldn't be caught by a
> reviewer.  If it's a Python syntax problem, you might consider using a
> tool to automatically report (ie, via email or directly into a
> bugtracker) uncaught python exceptions.  That would give you better
> coverage at least of brain-dead "it will crash as soon as you try to
> use it" problems.

These are the fixes, I think pylint would have detected them:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/177cbfab
http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar/repos/mainline/commits/fbd1f1e7

Regards,

Tomeu

>  --scott
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