From: MARK CALLAGHAN Date: August 11 2012 12:09pm Subject: Re: test cases? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/internals/38565 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Davi, What you describe is a delay in sharing. This thread started with a question about content (tests for bug fixes) that wasn't shared. I think those are separate discussions. This is a great place for the community team to respond. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Davi Arnaut wrote: > On top of the aforementioned, there was a change in policy that a > change log for a particular release will now only be published when > the release becomes available for download. Also, the commits going to > the commits mailing list are now quite infrequent and mostly > irrelevant. > > It seems that the few things that were developed in a somewhat open > manner no longer exist. It would be nice to know what is going on. It > might be seem as a direct attack on whoever develops on top of the > upstream MySQL. > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:39 AM, MARK CALLAGHAN wrote: >> If true this is also an issue for some users who don't modify MySQL >> source. They still want to confirm that bugs are fixed in new >> releases. Others want to confirm that binaries they compiled don't >> have any obvious bugs. >> >> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Sergei Golubchik wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Looking at the changes between mysql-5.5.25 and mysql-5.5.27, >>> I noticed that while it contains quite a few bug fixes, they all come >>> without test cases. >>> >>> What would that be - a change in policy? Careless developers? >>> >>> On the other hand, 5.5.27 contains a change to mysql-test-run to look >>> for test cases in the new directory, named "internal". >>> >>> May be all new tests are there? That is, tests are no longer >>> open-source? >>> >>> Whatever the reason is - everyone, who modifies MySQL (all linux >>> distributions, facebook, twitter, taobao, and many others) have >>> just lost the ability to test their extensions. >>> >>> Could anyone from Oracle shed some light on this? >>> Where did the new test cases go? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Sergei >>> >>> >>> -- >>> MySQL Internals Mailing List >>> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/internals >>> To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/internals >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark Callaghan >> mdcallag@stripped >> >> -- >> MySQL Internals Mailing List >> For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/internals >> To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/internals >> -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag@stripped