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?

Cheers
Philippe

> 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
>
>