Re: here comes the gold gold gold alpha (a year and a half?!)

On Sep 12, 2008, at 00:10, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've backed-out r10222 and r10224 and shipped 0.2808_04.
>
> Unless somebody points out that this has the exploding chipmunk nature
> in the next couple of days, I think it is safe to say we can ship 0.29
> before Monday.  (I'm tempted to bump the version number to 0.3 just to
> save the typing at this point.)

Excellent. And +1 on Upping the release to 0.30. It has been forever  
and there have been a shitload of changes.

> Moving on from that, my current wishlist:
>
>  * new 'N' key for my laptop :-(
>  * test coverage for this module_name + dist_version_from case
>    (my broken feature had test coverage, which has also been reverted)
>    (bah)
>  * testcover working (more on that later)
>  * M::B should pass its own testpod
>  * M::B should pass its own testpodcoverage[1]
>  * test coverage for any uncovered, documented feature
>  * oh crap, the RT queue?!
>  * any sort of automated smoke system that isn't cpantesters[2]

* A plugin system. This is still on my radar to do at some point.  
Someday. Maybe.

> So, that's the current state of things.  I think I can tolerate  
> pushing
> the tarballs and applying patches right now, but I haven't got time  
> for
> much else and that still doesn't leave time for me to take a crack  
> at a
> plugin system or much of anything else that I would actually enjoy
> hacking on.  With 2000+ distributions, not much test coverage, and no
> smoke process, I basically don't feel like I can actually *do*
> anything.

Can you add some of the necessary tests? Or Ken?

> Do we need to hand out more commit bits or candy or what?

Yes, once there is adequate test coverage.

Best,

David