[wp-testers] Trunk

[Jacob]

Matt wrote:
> On Dec 15, 2007 10:46 PM, spencerp <spencerp1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Actually, what would be nice is, if you had a "developer super duper
>> pooper" version or something like that. I know Trunk is an unstable /
>> test version as such. But I mean to have a "developer super duper
>> pooper" version... Where you could just UNLOAD / COMMIT all those
>> tickets in one swoop.
>>
>> Then us crazy testers can grab a copy of THAT version as well. Report
>> back, what worked, what went wrong, submit fixes, commit those fixes,
>> report back again. Then whatever passes without fail, or whatever...
>> then decide if "those" get submitted to Trunk for the next soon-to-be
>> release of WordPress..
>>
>>     
>
> Instead of a bug hunt, we should have a "Trac hunt". Search Trac for bugs
> marked for 2.4, check if they're still relevant, make a patch, and tag it
> something like "trac-hunted", to let the commiters know that it's ready.
> Then, well, I'm sure you know the rest. ;)
>
>
>   

No. The point of "hunts" is to gain motivation for doing what should 
already be done anyway. Going through some of the tickets from over 6 
months ago, you can pretty much find tickets that are no longer relevant 
and if you can prove it, then close it. There isn't any point having 
irrelevant tickets open when they can be closed as invalid.

Also, with any open source project, people write patches for areas they 
are concerned about. I'm more likely to write a patch for anything that 
has to do with plugins than for security, because I'm more interested in 
plugin API and I'm not very good at security. So I mean. There are a lot 
of bugs I won't touch because they either bore me or I'm too scared or 
they are beyond my current ability.

I adopted 6 or 7 tickets recently and I plan on providing patches for 
them. I would totally love to see them closed out. However, most of them 
are *enhancements* which is to say that they don't fix anything. 
However, still that is 6 or 7 tickets that hopefully won't be pushed to 
release after release.

Quality Assurance for open source is a bitch! However, I'm not really a 
tester besides writing occasional unit tests, so I wouldn't really know 
about some of the bugs.

-- 

Jacob Santos

http://www.santosj.name - blog
http://wordpress.svn.dragonu.net/unittest/ - unofficial WP unit test suite.

Also known as darkdragon and santosj on WP trac.