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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:40:22 +0200
From: "Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Early stabilisation
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Samuli Suominen <drac@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:43:59 +0200
> Vlastimil Babka <caster@gentoo.org> kirjoitti:
>
> > Okay. So we can just agree it's better if the maintainer tells his
> > reasons when opening the bug, to spare the later clarifications?
>
> "It works. Do it."
>
While I agree with you, and I think we are free to request
stabilization before the 30 days window, I also love when people give
details about the stabilization and not just a "do it".
Emacs team's "test plans" [1] are the better example. Thanks to them
I'm able to save a _lot_ of time figuring out how a package works and
which features should test.
Some details about changes since last stable are usually useful too.
In latest wgetpaste stabilization [2] we are told that this is a
trivial bugfix release fixing osl support, so we can just test osl
support and skip most of other tests.
Also, when a program needs a sample file with some obscure format, I
really appreciate when maintainers give a URL to a sample file so I
don't need to search for suitable files and can strictly focus on
testing.
Of course, everyone could continue with the "do it" style, but keep in
mind that adding info like I described above can save a lot of AT work
and, as a result, make stabilization process faster.
[1] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/emacs/wiki/test%20plans
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211894
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