TC election

[Ge van Geldorp]

With the TC function description settled, it's time to elect a Testing
Coordinator. I'd like to nominate Andrew Munger aka WaxDragon for this
position. Voting will start 7 days from now and the vote will run for 7
days.

Gé van Geldorp.

[WaxDragon]

Thanks for the nomination, Gé, I accept.  However, there are a few
things I would like to say.

First,  I'm not sure I can spend as much time doing TC duties as I did
previously.  I will be able to do testing "at a reasonable pace", and
the reduction of time for manual testing has prompted me to seriously
think about the beginnings of automated testing.  I have several ideas
that I wish to discuss with the team.

Second, I am really dismayed by what has happened to trunk while since
I stopped testing it.  I know there is a progress and regress cycle
that we seem to operate on, but this is one of the worst breakages I
have since since following the project.  Two months ago I called for a
tree freeze, and it wasn't as broken as it is now.  I know that alot
of it stems from the PnP work, which is good, but I thought PnP was
further down the roadmap.  These breakages have delayed the progress
towards 0.3.0, IMHO.  It's a tough call, since PnP will help with NIC
support and installation.  Those in IRC know I've been experimenting
with a multi-homed config, in hopes of getting a ReactOS based router
going.

I also ask that all svn committers try to assist my in my duties, by
testing patches before committing, and using branches when necessary. 
In return, I will be open to any suggestions regarding the testing
procedures.  Together we can make ReactOS great!

WD

On 11/8/05, Ge van Geldorp [e-mail] wrote:
> With the TC function description settled, it's time to elect a Testing
> Coordinator. I'd like to nominate Andrew Munger aka WaxDragon for this
> position. Voting will start 7 days from now and the vote will run for 7
> days.
>
> Gé van Geldorp.
>
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> [e-mail]
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<mikedep333> but if it isnt working, why is it even included on the CD?

[Steven Edwards]

Hi Wax,

--- WaxDragon [e-mail] wrote:
> of it stems from the PnP work, which is good, but I thought PnP was
> further down the roadmap.  These breakages have delayed the progress
> towards 0.3.0, IMHO.  It's a tough call, since PnP will help with NIC
> support and installation.  Those in IRC know I've been experimenting
> with a multi-homed config, in hopes of getting a ReactOS based router
> going.

The good thing about work on both being done now is the cycle from 0.3 
to 0.4 will be short. In my view we are very close to being able to tag 0.3
now that firefox is sorta working. Its not like we are promising 0.3 to be 
super stable or be able to support networking on anything other than VMware/Qemu.

In my mind we should try to nail down all the regressions that have anything to do
with networking. Figure out whats left to fix and stick a fork in 0.3 and focus on
0.4 which will feature

- True plug and play
 - Real stablity
> I also ask that all svn committers try to assist my in my duties, by
> testing patches before committing, and using branches when necessary. 
> In return, I will be open to any suggestions regarding the testing
> procedures.  Together we can make ReactOS great!

Amen!

Thanks
Steven

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