From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Avdi Grimm" Subject: Re: Re: How you can help Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:55 -0400 Message-ID: References: <967CE7ED-05E9-4031-9F3B-CFB826511554@alexanderonline.org> <878wsfpgtp.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> <877i7zbbe4.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt5d9-0000Yv-UQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:59 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt5d7-0000Yj-G3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57581 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kt5d7-0000Yg-6r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:57 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.244]:12865) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kt5d7-0000kf-6v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:57 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so562956rvb.6 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:13:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Richard Riley Cc: Bernt Hansen , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Ben Alexander On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Richard Riley wrote: > The nature of OSS means that the community using the product keep it > stable and bug free. I dont think the efforts to produce meaningful > regression tests would be beneficial in an ever morphing product like > org-mode. Clearly my humble opinion on that one :-; I don't know of a single open-source project with more than one or two developers which doesn't have a suite of regression tests. In fact, I know of a number of OSS projects which *will not* accept a patch unless tests accompany it. Once a codebase grows beyond a one-person pet project, tests become increasingly necessary for maintainability. -- Avdi Home: http://avdi.org Developer Blog: http://avdi.org/devblog/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/avdi Journal: http://avdi.livejournal.com