Re: we need organizers

[Janek Warchoł]

2011/9/11 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> Does anybody here feel like organizing tasks?  We have a lot of
> "delayed maintenance" stuff that is going to come back and bite us
> in an unpleasant manner.
>
> 3) a full regression test examination: it's been about 5 years
> since anybody actually looked at all the regtests.  (we've been
> doing comparisons, but not looking at all 1000+ regtests)
> Phil wrote a very nice web app that makes it easy to do this -- it
> randomly gives you regtests, you give feedback, it makes reports,
> etc... but that was back in January or February, and it went
> nowhere because nobody wanted to organize getting volunteers to go
> through them.
>
> What a shame!  This web app would be perfect for a "10 minutes a
> day coffee break" thing; we could easily have a dozen casual
> volunteers verify the entire regtests in a month or two.  (with
> each regtest being examined by at least 3 people!)
>
>
> 4) documenting every regtest.  IIRC the last time we (tried to)
> make sure that all features in the regtests were in the main
> documentation was back in the 2.11 days.  Again, the bulk of this
> work is simply recruiting and organizing volunteers; we don't need
> one person to volunteer to examine all 1008 regtests.
>
> Once that job is done, it will be very easy to keep the
> documentation up-to-date; we just run something like
>  git diff -u -r release/2.14.0-1 -r release/2.15.11-1 \
>    input/regression/
>
> to find out what new/changed features needs updating.  But that
> only works if we have a stable base to work from...

I might be willing to do this (since there are no other volunteers).
Can i see this web app?

> 1) Neil has volunteered to handle LSR -> 2.14.  Great!
>
> 2) James has offered to reclassify issues.  Great!

Is there anything that should be done with regard to these two or do
you post them as examples only?

cheers,
Janek