From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Starting pretest Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159248178 13267 80.91.229.2 (26 Sep 2006 05:22:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:22:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 26 07:22:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GS5P7-0001Qn-DR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:22:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GS5P6-00060h-Ro for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GS5Ou-0005z4-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GS5Or-0005yg-Jh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GS5Or-0005yc-FW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.184] (helo=tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GS5TO-00007e-9F; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:27:14 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor.home ([70.55.82.201]) by tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060926052230.SCHX10262.tomts22-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor.home>; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:30 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A1AEA1CC78; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:22:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue\, 26 Sep 2006 06\:28\:26 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60231 Archived-At: >> The purpose of pretesting is to find more bugs. There is no point >> starting pretest sooner if we are already getting bugs faster than >> we can fix them. I believe this reasoning is flawed because the rate at which we can fix bugs depends on many things which may all be (strongly) influenced by the pretest itself: - motivation - amount of info about each bug - number of outstanding bugs (determines the amount of parallelism available) - ... Stefan