From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: burden of maintainance Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:16:36 +0300 Message-ID: <83io6p5mi3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <560CEA6A.9000907@online.de> <834miaa847.fsf@gnu.org> <87twq9a3d3.fsf@russet.org.uk> <8337xt75ok.fsf@gnu.org> <560E9BF1.4070106@online.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443804326 22730 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2015 16:45:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 16:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 18:45:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi3SN-0006uB-Fd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:45:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33204 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi3SN-00025S-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi24o-00081U-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi24j-0005ZJ-3s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:16:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:53412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi24i-0005Yy-Sb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 11:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVL00M00M74NF00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:16:43 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVL00MDYMFVN510@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 18:16:43 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <560E9BF1.4070106@online.de> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190715 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 17:00:01 +0200 > From: Andreas R=C3=B6hler > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org >=20 > Am 02.10.2015 um 15:36 schrieb Eli Zaretskii: > > I meant if we require each contributor to accompany each commit w= ith a > > test, that could prevent quite a few from contributing. >=20 > Not just require, but let's say: for the time being, > every committer should be encuraged to asked the related part for t= est=20 > coverage. That we already do, although we could do it more. > If there is no test, writing the test before any other proceeding s= hould=20 > save a lot of time. I agree. The problem is in practice, not in principle.