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 (sort of side question, but my curiosity is sparked) obviously for something with this many users, they should not rely on just their users especially for this flavour of issue. 5 comments
 @fionafokus @daj @draNgNon there is that activitypub test suite which also received sovereign tech fund money weee oh it ... didn't cross my mind someone would put software out there for others to use and contribute to without automated testing to ensure it would continue to enjoy being functional I was interpreteing "any kind of testing" to mean more like QA (or I guess in the UK, they call is QC)  @draNgNon @daj @fionafokus yeah technically a good idea but based upon my own experience trying to work with that project - it falls apart even earlier. To give you a lil example. The frontend code used to be compiled and pushed into the repo by the one and only dev of this. Combining this with a beoken build process on "main" for over half a year - there was a lot of complied frontend code checked in and that was actually not matching the source alongside... ...i'm a release engineer. these problems, i understand and mentally associate with startup culture, which i guess is appropriate here. |
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@draNgNon Automatic software tests would catch most of these problems. Normally a set of tests are implemented separately, by specification. They are run automatically before every merge. That way you also catch unexpected breakage. @daj