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1 Here are the guidelines for being an Emacs pretester. |
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2 If you would like to do this, say so, and I'll add you to |
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3 the pretest list. |
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8 The purpose of Emacs pretesting is to verify that the new Emacs |
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9 distribution, about to be released, works properly on your system *with |
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10 no change whatever*, when installed following the precise |
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13 Here are some guidelines on how to do pretesting so as to make it |
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14 helpful. All of them follow from common sense together with the |
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15 nature of the purpose and the situation. |
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17 Please save this file, and reread it when a new series of pretests |
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18 starts. |
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20 * Get the pretest from gnu/emacs/emacs-MM.NN.tar.gz and |
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21 gnu/emacs/leim-MM.NN.tar.gz on alpha.gnu.org. |
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23 * After a few days of testing, if there are no problems, please report |
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24 that Emacs works for you and what configuration you are testing it on. |
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26 * If you want to communicate with other pretesters, send mail to |
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27 emacs-pretesters@gnu.org. I don't use that mailing list when I send |
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28 to you because I've found that mailing lists tend to amplify random |
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29 noise into long discussions or even arguments, and that can waste a |
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30 lot of time. But when you have a reason to ask other pretesters for |
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31 help, you can do it that way. |
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37 test. Testing a different program is usually of no use whatever. It |
88155 | 38 can even cause trouble, if you fail to tell us that you tested some |
39 other program instead of what we are about to release. We might think | |
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40 that Emacs works, when in fact it has not even been tried, and might |
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43 * Don't use a site-load.el file or a site-init.el file when you pretest. |
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44 Using either of those files means you are not testing Emacs as a typical |
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45 site would use it. |
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47 Actually, it does no harm to test Emacs with such customizations *as |
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88155 | 49 a bug is useful, as long as you make sure we know exactly what you |
50 did. The important point is that testing with local changes is no | |
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51 substitute for testing Emacs exactly as it is distributed. |
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54 program. The Emacs sources specify which compilation options to use. |
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55 Some of them are specified in makefiles, and some in machine-specific |
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56 configuration files. They also give you ways to override this--but if |
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57 you do, then you are not testing what ordinary users will do. |
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58 Therefore, when pretesting, it is vital to test with the default |
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61 (Testing with a different set of options can be useful *in addition*, |
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62 but not *instead of* the default options.) |
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64 * The machine and system configuration files of Emacs are parts of |
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65 Emacs. So when you test Emacs, you need to do it with the |
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69 and you test it with configuration files that don't come with Emacs, |
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70 this is effectively changing Emacs. Because the crucial fact about |
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76 safe--it certainly won't break any other machines that already work. |
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78 permission to use such a large piece of text. |
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83 machine, so use the ones that are recommended. If you guess, you might |
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85 don't follow etc/MACHINES then you aren't helping to test that its |
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88 The etc/MACHINES file may describe other things that you need to do |
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90 recommendations also, for the same reason. |
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96 we may need people to say what happens if you try a certain thing on a | |
97 certain system. When this happens, we'll send out a query. | |
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102 right away. That way, we will know that someone has tested Emacs on | |
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107 work; then, if you notice a problem a few days later, tell us | |
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111 as to see if you can easily fix it. But don't wait very long. A good |
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116 I'd much rather hear about a problem today and a solution tomorrow |
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117 than get both of them tomorrow at the same time. |
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121 If you refer back to another message, whether from you or from someone |
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123 the bug to find the other message. This may be difficult, it is |
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124 probably time-consuming. |
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131 relevant information, all together. If you send just the additional |
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135 * When you encounter a bug that manifests itself as a Lisp error, |
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136 try setting debug-on-error to t and making the bug happen again. |
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137 Then you will get a Lisp backtrace. Including that in your bug report |
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166 things rather than describing them. Use exact filenames (relative to |
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169 makefile". Instead of saying "I defined the MUMBLE macro", send a |
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172 * Always use `diff -c' to make diffs. If you don't include context, it |
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180 People often suggest fixing a problem by changing config.h or |
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181 src/ymakefile or even src/Makefile to do something special that a |
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184 make a change like that. All we can do is ask you to find a fix that | |
185 is safe to install. | |
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188 general--but it is hard to be sure of this. I can install such |
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196 sure it will apply only to a particular kind of system. Ordinarily, |
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197 that is a bad way to solve a problem, and I would want to find a |
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198 cleaner alternative. But the virtue of safety can make it superior at |
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202 something cleaner. Every change risks introducing a bug, so I won't | |
203 install a change during pretest unless it is *necessary*. | |
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206 user-visible bugs, don't wait till pretest time. Instead, send them |
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208 easiest time to consider such suggestions. If you send them at | |
209 pretest time, we will have to defer them till later, and that might | |
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212 * In some cases, if you don't follow these guidelines, your |
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