Re: Learning curves and such (was Re: pgFoundry)
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-05-18T04:07:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> writes: > The useful bug tracking systems I've used have also included QA. Any > bug submitted doesn't get accepted without a standalone test case. Side note: while test cases are certainly Good Things that make life easier for developers, so we should encourage people to provide 'em, I can't say that I like the idea of a tracking system designed around the concept that a bug for which you don't have a test case isn't real. It's not all that easy to make a test case for bugs involving concurrent behavior. I'd go so far as to say that most of the seriously interesting bugs that I've dealt with in this project were ones that the original reporter didn't have a reproducible test case for. regards, tom lane