Proposed critical step in cutting 1.0 release (or any major release)

chromatic chromatic at wgz.org
Mon Mar 2 20:22:23 UTC 2009


On Monday 02 March 2009 09:41:51 Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> I suggest that we add a "critical" ticket for each of
> the major releases whereby we verify that the major HLLs
> can still be built against the code being considered for
> the release, or at least that we can positively identify
> that any problems are in the HLL code and not something
> that requires a Parrot internals fix (as was needed for
> r37061).

We also need tests for *every* bugfix for HLL breakage.  Every time our 
existing test suite doesn't catch this problem, we know it's incomplete.  I 
didn't see a test added for r37061.

-- c


More information about the parrot-dev mailing list