Coaxing appdb maintainers into testing their apps with rc1?

[Dan Kegel]

It doesn't look like many people are paying attention to
http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt

Think it would be useful to email all the app maintainers and
ask them to pretty please test their apps with rc1?

[Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes]

> It doesn't look like many people are paying attention to
> http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
>
> Think it would be useful to email all the app maintainers and
> ask them to pretty please test their apps with rc1?

Sounds like a great idea (and looks like I have some work to do for the apps I 
maintain :)  )

The AppDB doesn't have such a feature, but it should be pretty easy to make.  
I'll  try to get it done to-day.

Alexander N. Sørnes

[Jeff Zaroyko]

Dan Kegel <dank <at> kegel.com> writes:
> It doesn't look like many people are paying attention to
> http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
>
> Think it would be useful to email all the app maintainers and
> ask them to pretty please test their apps with rc1?

I think a little typesetting goes a long way in keeping peoples attention.

I looked at the wiki entry to see if I could possibly make it slightly more
legible but I couldn't see a way to use plain old html.

Instead, I think something along these lines would be better suited,
http://jeffz.name/regressionhunt.html I feel it's has more of an attention 
getting feel to it.

Notifying maintainers by email sounds like a good idea.

[Dan Kegel]

Jeff wrote:
> > http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
>
> I think a little typesetting goes a long way in keeping peoples attention.
> [How about] http://jeffz.name/regressionhunt.html

Yeah, my original looked like a huge block of boring text.
I've added headings, I think it's a little better now.
Still too long.

[Zachary Goldberg]

Dan,

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Dan Kegel  wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
> > > http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
> > I think a little typesetting goes a long way in keeping peoples attention.
> > [How about] http://jeffz.name/regressionhunt.html
>
> Yeah, my original looked like a huge block of boring text.
>  I've added headings, I think it's a little better now.
>  Still too long.

I would say 2 and 4 could possibly be combined, as well 6,7.8 are all
almost the same and could perhaps be one.  Reducing the number of
major headings from 8 to 5.

-Zach

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Zachary Goldberg  wrote:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
>
> I would say 2 and 4 could possibly be combined, as well 6,7.8 are all
>  almost the same and could perhaps be one.  Reducing the number of
>  major headings from 8 to 5.

I'm not sure how to do that well, but I did combine two headings,
it's a little better now, thanks.

[Jeff Zaroyko]

Dan Kegel <dank <at> kegel.com> writes:
> It doesn't look like many people are paying attention to
> http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
>
> Think it would be useful to email all the app maintainers and
> ask them to pretty please test their apps with rc1?

Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes has kindly added support to the AppDB to email all
the app maintainers.

So let's decide what we want ask our maintainers.

How about this:

Subject: Wine needs you!

Hello Application maintainers!

If you weren't already aware, Wine is doing release candidates for the lead up
to Wine 1.0

The current release candidate is wine-1.0rc2

We would like to make sure that as many programs as possible are tested with 
the latest version of Wine and we have selected you as an ideal candidate to
test the applications you maintain.

Please help us find regressions and embarrassing problems in rc2!

We are also running a Platinum Regression Hunt and a Dogfood Challenge

* http://wiki.winehq.org/PlatinumRegressionHunt
    * http://wiki.winehq.org/DogfoodChallenge

According to http://wiki.winehq.org/WineReleasePlan, wine-1.0.0-rc3 will be due
out Friday, May 30th, 2008

Best regards
The Wine AppDB team