On Jan 26, 2007, at 16:03 , Philippe Marschall wrote:

> 2007/1/26, Ralph Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>:
>> One of my goals for 3.10 is to improve the quality of the image.  Our
>> first release (coming soon!) will have only green tests, and each
>> following release will have only green tests.
>
> How does removing failing tests improve the quality?

Woa, where does that hostility come from? There is another way to  
ensure all tests are green, besides removing the failing ones.

- Bert -

>> But there are many
>> other things that could be checked automatically.  For example, there
>> should be no unimplemented methods in the released image.
>> Unfortunately, there are a lot right now, so we can't make that rule.
>> But I would like to have all these fixed by the end of the 3.10 cycle
>> and to be able to enforce the rule that no release has any
>> unimplemented methods.
>>
>> Jerome Peace has been working on getting rid of unimplemented methods
>> and has a lot of fixes.  You can find them at
>> http://bugs.impara.de/view.php?id=4544   This is the original Mantis
>> issue that he has been working on.  Most of the fixes are in "child"
>> issues, but you can find them from that page.
>>
>> You can help by checking Jerome's fixes.  If you are familiar with  
>> the
>> code he is changing, read it and see whether you can spot anything
>> wrong.  If you can, post a note.  If you can't, please post a note
>> that, as far as you can tell, it looks good.  If you aren't that
>> familiar with the code, but are working on an application that uses
>> it, please file in the changes and try out your application.  Again,
>> report on the results!
>>
>> If two or three people try out some changes and everybody thinks they
>> are OK, the release team will mark the issue as "resolved" and put it
>> in the next release.
>>
>> We will make sure the code doesn't break any tests.  But if you don't
>> try out the code then we'll have to try it, as well, and that will
>> take a lot more time.  So, you can help us get more work done by
>> checking out these fixes.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Ralph Johnson
>>
>>
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