Re: burden of maintainance

[phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:10:18 +0200
>> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
>> 
>> as the burden of maintainance was mentioned: from reading the 
>> bug-reports got the impression, a more strict test-regime might reduce that.
>> 
>> If a bug shows up, the first question should be: how it could survive 
>> the tests?
>> Current commit-policy seems still a bit away from that.
>> 
>> Will not being in favor of formalistic code-coverage technics,
>
> Suggestions for how to improve our test suite without alienating
> potential contributors are welcome.


I think for many potential contributors a richer test suite is likely to
lessen alienation rather than increase it.

Still, you asked for ways to improve it. Here is my suggestion:

[phillord@...src/large/emacs]$ make test
make: Nothing to be done for `test'.


I would rename "check" to "test" and add "test" to .PHONY. I didn't
even know that Emacs had an automated test suite until one of the
elongated threads that Eric inspired here about six months ago.

Phil