Matt wrote:
On Dec 15, 2007 10:46 PM, spencerp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, what would be nice is, if you had a "developer super duper
pooper" version or something like that. I know Trunk is an unstable /
test version as such. But I mean to have a "developer super duper
pooper" version... Where you could just UNLOAD / COMMIT all those
tickets in one swoop.
Then us crazy testers can grab a copy of THAT version as well. Report
back, what worked, what went wrong, submit fixes, commit those fixes,
report back again. Then whatever passes without fail, or whatever...
then decide if "those" get submitted to Trunk for the next soon-to-be
release of WordPress..
Instead of a bug hunt, we should have a "Trac hunt". Search Trac for bugs
marked for 2.4, check if they're still relevant, make a patch, and tag it
something like "trac-hunted", to let the commiters know that it's ready.
Then, well, I'm sure you know the rest. ;)
No. The point of "hunts" is to gain motivation for doing what should
already be done anyway. Going through some of the tickets from over 6
months ago, you can pretty much find tickets that are no longer relevant
and if you can prove it, then close it. There isn't any point having
irrelevant tickets open when they can be closed as invalid.
Also, with any open source project, people write patches for areas they
are concerned about. I'm more likely to write a patch for anything that
has to do with plugins than for security, because I'm more interested in
plugin API and I'm not very good at security. So I mean. There are a lot
of bugs I won't touch because they either bore me or I'm too scared or
they are beyond my current ability.
I adopted 6 or 7 tickets recently and I plan on providing patches for
them. I would totally love to see them closed out. However, most of them
are *enhancements* which is to say that they don't fix anything.
However, still that is 6 or 7 tickets that hopefully won't be pushed to
release after release.
Quality Assurance for open source is a bitch! However, I'm not really a
tester besides writing occasional unit tests, so I wouldn't really know
about some of the bugs.
--
Jacob Santos
http://www.santosj.name - blog
http://wordpress.svn.dragonu.net/unittest/ - unofficial WP unit test suite.
Also known as darkdragon and santosj on WP trac.
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