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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: volunteering (was: putting 'whining' to work)
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:49:09 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <1236.845514967@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 16, 96 06:16:07 pm
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote...

> > So, lets assume I'd like to help in testing. What would be a 
> > workable way to contribute? Would I have to track -current?
> 
> That would be the minimum requirement for at least *one* of your
> machines, e.g. the release builder.
> 
> What a lot of folks have been doing, and it makes a good sense, is
> tracking the CVS repository and whenever I say that I'm making a
> release, they make one too and test from that one.  That saves them
> from having to FTP my entire release across the pond, and they can
> even make small test alterations to their local release build when
> working collaboratively with me to solve a problem.

OK. My assumption proved valid.

> If you wanted to be truly labor-saving about it, I guess one person in
> each network community could build the release and the others could
> use the single central copy for testing.

This would then be a sort of test-snaps ;-) And it would sure mean
a lot of work for this test-manager.

How big would such a test-snap be (in Mb) ? Assuming bin only, etc.

Wilko
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