Thread: Need help on SpikeSource Testing Contest
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
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 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@pervasive.com Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com 512-569-9461
Jim, > Anything more on this? Contest start is in just over 3 weeks... Nope. I've get to get a committer to promise to review submitted tests. That's the main thing I need before we can commit to participation. I'll also be drafting some docs on requirements for regression tests, but that's less immediately critical ... --Josh -- __Aglio Database Solutions_______________ Josh Berkus Consultant josh@agliodbs.com www.agliodbs.com Ph: 415-752-2500 Fax: 415-752-2387 2166 Hayes Suite 200 San Francisco, CA