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From: "Jeff Mickey" <jeff@archlinux.org>
To: Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org>
Cc: Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>,
	emacs-orgmode Org-Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How you can help
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:02:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbe757b30810241202l524bbd1bja0edc86450c2ceb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ecbcf0fb0810241144x16513f06wfa7429c4499137cb@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 14:44, Avdi Grimm <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:
> For the record, I normally would never expect the user to submit
> tests.  A description of the problem and some sample data is all I
> expect.  Writing the a test to reproduce the behavior is the
> programmer's responsibility as far as I'm concerned.

That's the best part of open source software!  A surprising amount of
the time, the user IS a programmer, and thus is able to provide tests.

And it's not that we should require anyone to provide tests before
they report a bug, but they should be required to outline the steps to
reproduce the behavior, so any programmer could take 5 minutes and
quickly whip up a test.

ps: I almost have a baby ert framework for org-mode.  It doesn't do
anything yet, but the design is you write a test, and add it to the
org-test-hook to be run by org-test-all.
-- 
. : [ + carpe diem totus tuus + ] : .

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-23 12:04 How you can help Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 13:43 ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-23 15:04   ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:49     ` Richard Riley
2008-10-23 16:22       ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 17:02       ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 12:13         ` Richard Riley
2008-10-24 15:39           ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-24 16:27           ` Manish
2008-10-24 18:41             ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 19:13       ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 12:19         ` Richard Riley
2008-10-23 16:19     ` Bernt Hansen
2008-10-24  5:05       ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-23 17:01   ` Jason F. McBrayer
2008-10-23 23:46     ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-23 14:20 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 14:50   ` Manish
2008-10-23 15:46     ` Eric Schulte
2008-10-23 16:18       ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 14:55   ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-23 16:26     ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 16:42       ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-23 17:33         ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 19:10           ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 21:09           ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2008-10-24 18:33         ` Ben Alexander
2008-10-24 18:44           ` Avdi Grimm
2008-10-24 19:02             ` Jeff Mickey [this message]
2008-10-26 19:49             ` org-cycle broken when cursor is at ellipses Ben Alexander
2008-10-26 21:31               ` Cameron Horsburgh
2008-10-27  8:47                 ` Carsten Dominik
2008-10-27  8:47               ` Carsten Dominik
     [not found]       ` <D43ED86C-EFD4-4BA8-8528-4F82DB11D625@alexanderonline.org>
2008-10-23 17:12         ` How you can help Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:08 ` Sebastian Rose
     [not found] <E1Kt27M-0008Tx-0J@box188.bluehost.com>
2008-10-23 16:11 ` Robert Goldman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-23  7:35 Carsten Dominik
2008-10-23  8:12 ` Manish
2008-10-23  9:24 ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 10:28   ` Sebastian Rose
2008-10-23 15:23 ` Russell Adams

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