Re: Need help on SpikeSource Testing Contest

Anything more on this? Contest start is in just over 3 weeks...

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:48:08AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Those of you who went to OSCON may have heard that SpikeSource is having a
> contest to increase testing code coverage of popular OSS projects. The
> contest involves prizes of up to $2500 for test writers.
>
> Given that we have people in the community who have been thinking about
> testing, and just need a little encouragement, I'd really like PostgreSQL
> to participate (and so would SpikeSource).
>
> There's two things I'd like to have help with in this regard:
>
> 1) I need the committed help of one or more pgsql-committers who can
> evaluate stuff submitted to our regression test suite. The contest
> doesn't coincide with our development cycle (it's 9/15 to 12/30), so we
> may need to evaluate a new test at a time when we can't actually commit it
> to HEAD. Andrew? Neil? Bruce?
>
> 2) Do we have a coding standards document anywhere? There's a lot of
> stuff in the Developer FAQ but it doesn't quite lay out at "this is what
> your code has to have to be accepted". I'd swear I've seen something of
> the sort ...
>
> --
> --Josh
>
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
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