On 14.02.2013 20:08, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Mark Phippard <markphip_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> That is good to hear. I saw Ben committed some tests as well. I did
>> see him declare victory anywhere though, so I am assuming he still
>> plans to add more?
> Yes the tests I added were the basic framework for writing them and
> the simplest tests. The place I expect to see real problems is the
> complex moves and directory moves. Those aren't the tests that are in
> right now. As recent as Monday of this week those simple tests were
> failing with crashes and assertion failures. So we are making
> progress.
>
> My vote would be for alpha releases from trunk for now. I think we
> all can be reasonable about what we're putting on trunk right now. If
> someone commits something we don't think belongs there we can always
> move it to a branch.
>
> I have mixed feelings about how useful the feedback will be from an
> alpha with respect to local moves. Partly because if you take a look
> at the tests that are in now you'll find that there's almost no way to
> know what to chose to get the resolution you want. Julian's working
> towards figuring some of this out on the wiki. But I don't expect
> users are going to find that this makes much sense to them at this
> point. As a result I suspect the feedback we'll get is that resolve
> with tree conflicts needs more work (which we already know).
>
> Despite this I don't think we should exclude the opportunity for the
> input. We can put out an alpha, whatever feedback we get we can use
> and we can continue working towards our own stabilization/testing
> efforts.
There are other new features in 1.8 that would benefit from having
potential users (and packagers) look at them sooner rather than later.
So I'm firmly in the "release alpha from trunk now" camp.
-- Brane
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Branko Čibej
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Received on 2013-02-15 04:20:32 CET