Re: Need help on SpikeSource Testing Contest - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Need help on SpikeSource Testing Contest
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Msg-id 20050822211953.GG72767@pervasive.com
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In response to Need help on SpikeSource Testing Contest  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Need help on SpikeSource Testing Contest  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Anything more on this? Contest start is in just over 3 weeks...

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:48:08AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Those of you who went to OSCON may have heard that SpikeSource is having a 
> contest to increase testing code coverage of popular OSS projects.  The 
> contest involves prizes of up to $2500 for test writers.
> 
> Given that we have people in the community who have been thinking about 
> testing, and just need a little encouragement, I'd really like PostgreSQL 
> to participate (and so would SpikeSource).
> 
> There's two things I'd like to have help with in this regard:
> 
> 1) I need the committed help of one or more pgsql-committers who can 
> evaluate stuff submitted to our regression test suite.   The contest 
> doesn't coincide with our development cycle (it's 9/15 to 12/30), so we 
> may need to evaluate a new test at a time when we can't actually commit it 
> to HEAD.  Andrew?  Neil?  Bruce?
> 
> 2) Do we have a coding standards document anywhere?   There's a lot of 
> stuff in the Developer FAQ but it doesn't quite lay out at "this is what 
> your code has to have to be accepted". I'd swear I've seen something of 
> the sort ...
> 
> -- 
> --Josh
> 
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
> 
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