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From: "Avdi Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org>
To: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Ben Alexander <bva@alexanderonline.org>
Subject: Re: Re: How you can help
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:13:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecbcf0fb0810231213o702ca937j8f75aaff291132f8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <um63njqpk0.fsf@development.richardriley.net>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Richard Riley
<rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> 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

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-23 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ 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 [this message]
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
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

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