Re: Policy about not-yet-regression tests?

[David Kastrup]

Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 05:26:49PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > I do not think that this is an appropriate time to discuss changes
>> > to the bug squad policies, nor to our regtest organization.
>> > Please add an item to the GOP policy list about this, and we will
>> > discuss it in full in due course.
>> 
>>From CG:
>> 
>>        Regression tests are added when new functionality is added to
>>     LilyPond.  They are also added when bugs are identified.  The
>>     snippet that causes the bug becomes a regression test to verify that
>>     the bug has been fixed.
>> 
>> Could you explain what the second sentence is supposed to mean?
>
> I can explain that whatever the second sentences is supposed to
> mean, we do not follow that policy.  I can explain that it would
> be good to clarify this, but that I do not think that this is the
> appopriate time.
>
> Please add an item to the GOP policy list about this, and we will
> discuss it in full in due course.

I won't add any such an item to the GOP policy list since I won't
endorse announcing one thing in CG while adhering to a different policy
in reality.

-- 
David Kastrup