Release criteria (Was Re: removing synfig from etch?)

[Paul Wise]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 23:57 +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:

> Thanks. I now opened specific blocking bugs on synfig and synfigstudio,
> so it's clear to people what is going on.

Cool

> We could start thinking of release criteria and a series of tests that
> need to succeed before we let synfig(studio) into testing again.

Some specific things that I would like fixed:

      * Existing RC bugs dealt with
      * #368733 and #366731 really need fixing for the app to be
        non-confusing for users. There is also a bug when editing object
        properties: Del deletes the object, instead of deleting a
        character from the field.
      * There are a few crashers/freezes in the upstream BTS

Some specific goals I wrote about for the next upstream release, but
these haven't been discussed much, or announced on the front page.

http://wiki.synfig.com/Roadmap

> For synfig, we could easily formulate this as a set of specific runs
> (command line options + input files) that must produce the correct
> results.

Hmm, perhaps building the examples and also building the synfigstudio
images too?

> For synfigstudio, it's more or less about defining a set of
> "click-paths" that must produce the correct results. I have some vague
> memory of seeing a tool for automating such things, but I can't seem to
> find it now.

Hmm, I'm not sure. Upstream development isn't really active, apart from
fixing bugs. I think something more useful would be to use the program,
identify the more important UI faults and fix them. Someone was working
on a UI overhaul for upstream:

http://wiki.synfig.com/UI_Reloaded

The person who did it is still around, just too busy to work on at it at
the moment. I think they might have got scared off when I asked them to
split up the patch and document it with screenshots.

Googling around I found this though:
http://www.wildopensource.com/activities/larry-projects/android.php

-- 
bye,
pabs

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