The solution for that is test-driven development. Apache doesn't have a QA team like Adobe. If developers write new stuff and don't write any tests, how are you ever going to trust anything new?
Sent from my iPad On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:11 PM, "Alex Harui" <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > > On 8/8/12 10:00 PM, "Gordon Smith" <gosm...@adobe.com> wrote: > >> Why all the focus on branching strategies? It makes more sense to focus on a >> testing strategy. We need an 'ant tests' and a requirement that it pass for >> all changes to trunk. >> >> Didn't the mustella tests get submitted? What more do we need other than an >> easy way to run them? >> > Because I don't have faith that Mustella catches everything, and I'd rather > merge stuff we feel good about rather than try to remove stuff we don't feel > good about when were trying to get a release out. > > You know as well as I do what the bug curve looked like for most things > after they landed. > > -- > Alex Harui > Flex SDK Team > Adobe Systems, Inc. > http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui >
