Re: 8.4 release planning

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 20:12 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>
> > HS is working very well (Simon's ongoing work aside). I am pretty
> > confident based on my personal testing that it would represent the
> > project well if committed today.
>
> I think a lot of people weren't aware there was anybody testing this patch
> other than Simon and Heikki -- I wasn't until just today. I wonder how many
> more people are trying it out?

OK, so maybe its been unclear: Gianni Ciolli has been leading a test
team on this, with other people swapping in and out as they go to work
on other things. There's been multiple test machines running various
kinds of test on different OS. Gianni and I have done many midnight
sessions together on this and his help and support has been invaluable.
If some bugs have got passed that test screening in recent weeks, I
think that's down to the sheer volume of tests and my own descriptions
of how things ought to work and exactly where to focus. Gianni has
located more issues than Heikki has, just.

Hannu provided a lot of early input on the problems of conflict
resolution and various alternatives.

I'm the main developer, but I don't underrate their contributions.

I've had specific bug reports from 6 people and test feedback/questions
from about another 4-5 people; Mark isn't credited because I wasn't
keeping track of them in earl stages of review.

Recent refactoring has been a rich source of regressions and those don't
go away overnight, but they don't take months either.

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