Re: GOP2: 2 - Stable releases and roadmap (radical change)

[Janek Warchoł]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 05:48:48PM +0200, Janek Warchoł wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Graham Percival
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > To avoid slowing down programming to a crawl, I figure that we’ll
>> > identify some subset of these regtests and have a separate make
>> > regtests-quick command which only evaluates that subset.
>> >
>> > As a rule of thumb, I’d say that the regtests-quick target should
>> > take as long as a make from scratch.
>>
>> *very* good idea!  +20
>
> Well, there's no reason why this needs to be tied to a specific
> release policy.  There's certainly no harm in implementing the
> basic infrastructure of "make regtests-quick", leaving any debate
> about exacty which files qualify for the "quick" test.
>
> Problem is, somebody needs to sit down and do it.  Do you feel
> like adding that?

ok, but not until GSoC finishes.  If anyone else is interested, go for it.

> - 10-100 (?) hours of helpful users organizing and writing .ly
>   files to cover all (? or most?) functionality

I can help here.

> - somebody to organize the entire effort

I can help here.

cheers,
Janek