[Zope-Coders] Regular Zope tests

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Mon, 22 Oct 2001 17:37:05 -0400


Matthew T. Kromer wrote:

> Shane Hathaway wrote:
>> Right now no one is assigned to fix the last two test cases.  Maybe 
>> once they are fixed we should switch to always mailing failures.


Update: Andreas fixed the last two!  Yay!

> (snip)
> See incentive above.  The point here is not to sugar coat the test 
> suites.  If you would prefer, I'll generate the test mailing instead.  I 
> started doing that earlier but never hooked up a mailer. 
> As a developer, you might only care if things are broken.  As a 
> packager, I want to know when things are good.  I want someone to tell 
> me, daily, that things are good.  I'm amenable to being flexible about 
> unpublished code (e.g. the trunk) but I still think its more likely that 
> bad test cases get fixed if they're announced frequently, rather than 
> announced once and then set to a "broken and forgotten" state.

Okay, in a few days I'll change it to:

- check Zope-2_4-branch also

- mail if there are errors, changes, or it's Monday (2 AM, I think.)

... unless you get to it first. :-)

Shane