Fwd: Pending tasks for the 4.9 release

[Thijs Heus]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:12 PM, David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk
> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr> wrote:
> > On 06/04/2012 09:31 PM, David Edmundson wrote:
> >>
> >> I started a list of new features and changed areas for 4.9.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> http://community.kde.org/index.php?title=Getinvolved/Testing/Beta/AreasToTest
> >> It's deliberately quite vague, to encourage general testing around a
> >> changed area, and it's grouped by how the user you would see it,
> >> rather than technical motivation (i.e I'll put the kactivies KIO under
> >> Dolphin).
> >>
> >> It's very incomplete, it's based on:
> >>  - the 4.9 feature plan. Which is mostly crap
> >>  - blog posts
> >>  - me looking at 4.9 betas.
> >>
> >> Going through the commit digest history may help a bit.
> >>
> >> I've not yet added it to the beta homepage, I will do once people look
> >> over it, add a few items and give me a "Ship it!".
> >>
> >> Then I'll bump the thread on the KDE-Devel ML (or maybe even blog?)
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> > Yeah we'll need to blog!
> >
> > We also need to encourage testers to add things to test when they will
> start
> > testing: this will be a base tests for the next test releases, especially
> > when we will test the port to Qt5 and Frameworks where basically
> everything
> > will need to be tested.
> >
> Ok, will do that now.
>
> In my head this should be a list of things that have changed in a
> release and therefore should be tested, and therefore by it's nature
> should not form a basis for next releases (i.e 4.10).
>
> What you're proposing (I think) is a list of "important things to
> test", which is a useful, but separate task.
>
>
>  There are currently 40 bugs tagged against 4.9/4.9beta/4.9git (shared
search, the criteria are a little bit wider than Myriams one). I will sift
through that list to see how many are regressions(and mark them with that
keyword). For any new bug reported from now on, I guess we need to make
sure whether it is one or not. If unclear, let's ask the reporter.
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