[PD] call for help: help patch fixing

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

This is great!  First off, I'll just say, I don't think it matters  
which platform/OS you use, these things should work on all platforms.   
I think Kyle's process makes sense, here are a couple minor questions:

- if you have svn access, commit directly (if you want svn access,  
request on pd-dev)
- if you don't have svn access, then submit to the patch tracker

There are a number of tests that we could run.  Off the top of my  
head, I was thinking of starting off by running a script which opens  
every help patch, and if Pd crashes, it will send a report.  Then we  
could add something that loads every

One question is how to get the results from the script.  An easy thing  
to setup would be to have the script send results to pd-cvs at iem.at.   
Does that work for everyone?

.hc

On Feb 28, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Kyle Klipowicz wrote:

> Hans~
>
> I am interested in finding ways to help. What would be required?
>
> I imagine something like:
>
> 1. getting an automatic email after the nightly tests.
> 2. Logging into the svn or whatever your versioning system is (would  
> have to be trained on this part).
> 3. Downloading the said help patches.
> 4. Testing said help patches on local machine.
> 5. If fix is found, upload new file to svn and add relevant comments  
> to versioning system (training again) .
>
> If you could come up with a very straightforward, idiot-proof  
> checklist of actions, I could likely offer an hour or two a week on  
> this task. My only machine right now is running OS X 10.5.6, so  
> that's the scope of my usefulness to the project.
>
> ~Kyle
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner  
> <hans at eds.org> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> A while back, I wrote some scripts that can automatically load every
> help patch and load every objectclass.  I would like to set these up
> to run every night, but I don't think I'll be able to keep up with the
> output from this, i.e. fixing the help patches that crash and at the
> same manage getting this Pd-extended 0.41 release finished.  So I want
> to see if there is anyone willing to handle this whole process.
>
> I think it will make Pd much more reliable if we can track down the
> little errors in help patches that can cause crashes.  As far as I am
> concerned it can be managed how ever anyone wants to do it.  I have
> these basic scripts ready to go, but they could easily be replaced
> with something else, if anyone else wants to do that.
>
> I think this could then be expanded into a broader testing framework.
>
> .hc
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