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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: Some Sample Projects for 386BSD
Message-ID: <1993Mar17.003237.13223@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 93 00:32:37 GMT
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In article <1993Mar13.031421.17390@netcom.com> jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr) writes:
>>> 3) Unified releases. At one time, Julian and a bunch of other's on ref
>>> were planning on making a new and improved release, which ..
>>>
> Yes, lets do it.
I think these require publication of "install", at the very least. This
is basically Lynne's project, so you will have to figure a way to work
around the install inadequacies with her.
>>> Also, he wanted me to stress that he would 'like' (not require) people
>>> to send in some sort of test program that triggers bugs when they report
>>> them. This way, it is ...
>>>
> Bill will not require.
>
> I will. _Any_ fixes/patches/hackes to the FDC or QIC-40/80
> will not be considered without the regression test.
> I will not require a formal test, but it would be nice.
> What is reasonable is all I ask.
If you are talking about publishing a regression test, and requiring it
to be run before patches are submitted or running before making patches
available, fine. If you are talking about providing a fix to a bug and a
test to ensure the behaviour is fixed, I have to disagree somewhat. The
Compaq boot problem, for instance, has always passed the "does it boot"
test on Dell machines. I think any requirements you enforce should take
bug repeatability on particular hardware into account.
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
terry_lambert@novell.com
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