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 16:36:59 +0300 Message-ID: <8337xt75ok.fsf@gnu.org> References: <560CEA6A.9000907@online.de> <834miaa847.fsf@gnu.org> <87twq9a3d3.fsf@russet.org.uk> 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 1443796198 10711 80.91.229.3 (2 Oct 2015 14:29:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:29:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: andreas.roehler@online.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 02 16:29:49 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 1Zi1LF-0001IH-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60402 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi1LE-0004qP-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:29:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51146) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi0WS-0003VP-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:37:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi0WM-0004FX-IW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:37:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:53257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zi0WM-0004F2-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 09:37:10 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVL00A00HG3YC00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:37:08 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVL00AERHTUXO40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:37:08 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87twq9a3d3.fsf@russet.org.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:190690 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: Andreas R=C3=B6hler , > > Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 12:58:48 +0100 >=20 > Eli Zaretskii writes: >=20 > > Suggestions for how to improve our test suite without alienating > > potential contributors are welcome. >=20 > I think for many potential contributors a richer test suite is like= ly to > lessen alienation rather than increase it. I meant if we require each contributor to accompany each commit with = a test, that could prevent quite a few from contributing. > Still, you asked for ways to improve it. Here is my suggestion: >=20 > [phillord@...src/large/emacs]$ make test > make: Nothing to be done for `test'. >=20 > I would rename "check" to "test" and add "test" to .PHONY. Feel free to make such a change, and TIA.