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

Hiya,

I have for long wanted to get my hands dirty with M::B, I have made  
several subclasses, but I would like to get more into depth with M::B.

So if there is anything I could do, I would gladly help and hopefully  
I could help to free up some resources to look at something like the  
plugin system.

So if you have some designated tasks I would love to look into  
creating some patches or tests.

jonasbn

On 12/09/2008, at 09.10, 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.)
>
> 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]
>
> Given one or more of these, I'll ship 0.4 within a month.
>
> [1] Its own testpodcoverage need not be Test::Pod::Coverage, but
> whatever it is - it should (A) do some kind of verification that the
> pod that should be written is written and (B) pass!
>
> [2] It could be cpantesters, but I would rather see M::B tests against
> the CPAN running (A) out-of-band to minimize "author WTF" and (B) from
> svn.  The current state of things is that we have very low test
> coverage, which means that the CPAN needs to be out test suite, but  
> the
> way this currently runs through cpantesters requires me to (B) release
> a tarball and will (A) spam everybody but me about it.
>
> 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.
>
> Do we need to hand out more commit bits or candy or what?
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
> -- 
> "It works better if you plug it in!"
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