[GRASS-dev] Re: testing in 6.5 before backporting to 6.4

[Michael Barton]

No disagreement from me on this.

MIchael
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On Jun 17, 2011, at 1:27 PM, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 2011/6/17 Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
>> The lack of manpower makes it even more important that all developers test any changes before committing--including backporting.
> 
> I guess there is no one who is against testing. The subjective point
> of view is "how much" the committed changes are tested. It depends on
> the contributor, what he/she is committing (core libs, modules, GUI),
> release life cycle (speaking about stable releases), etc. There is no
> measurement, I believe everyone is going her/his best. Even someone
> can have different impression. The important issue is to have working
> test suites (modules - thanks Soeren for good work, GUI, etc).
> 
> Martin
> 
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