On Monday, 8 October 2007 21:26, Scott Preece wrote:
> On 10/8/07, J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:34:47PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> ...
> > > So, putting a Tested-by into the changelog is only useful if the
> > > necessary testing is rather simple (i.e. "fixed the bug which I was
> > > always able to reproduce before") or if the tester is known to have
> > > performed rigorous and sufficiently broad tests.
> >
> > Well, you can still include those test-method details in the body of the
> > message in addition to adding the "Tested-by:".
> >
> > Does "Tested-by" just mean they ran some relevant test on the final
> > version of the patch? The really hard part is often the initial work
> > required to find a good reproduceable test case, capture the right error
> > report, or bisect to the right commit. I think that also counts as
> > "testing". And it'd be nice to have a tag for those sorts of
> > contributions, partly just as another way to ackowledge them.
> ---
>
> Tested-by should, at the very least, have a description of the test
> environment in the body (suggesting that the change compiled and ran
> in that environment). Preferably it should also have a description of
> the test or test suite run and whether that test failed on an
> unpatched system.
Tested-by: is sort of trivial for a fix patch, for example, if a bug reporter
confirms that the proposed patch actually fixes the issue. IMHO it wouldn't
be practical to complicate that.
Greetings,
Rafael
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