Re: Starting pretest

[Kim F. Storm]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> The purpose of pretesting is to find more bugs.  

Really?

I would rather view the purpose of the pretest as

 Making us "confident" that there are no _serious_ bugs left.


>                                                  There is no point
> starting pretest sooner if we are already getting bugs faster than
> we can fix them.

There will always be bugs!!
Not all bugs need to be fixed to make a release.  
Somebody need to draw the line -- or we will never see a release!

Since there are already _many_ daily users of CVS emacs on "common
platforms", Emacs 22.1 has already gone through infinitely more
testing than any previous emacs release!

IMO we are more than ready to start pretest, so we can have emacs
tested on some of the more unusual platforms (that I suppose the
pretesters may have kept around for that specific purpose!).

For example, we have a recent report of a crash in GC on Cygwin (not
listed in FOR-RELEASE), and there could be crashes on other platforms
that we will only know about once we start the pretest.


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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk