Dear all, two more small pleas that will make bug reporting and fixing much simpler and smoother: - When submitting a bug, please *always* set both the "Category:" and the "Group:"! This helps the developer(s) to identify which version/part of the system your bug occured with. - When changing the "Status:", "Resolution:", and/or "Priority:", please *always* provide a comment that explans the motivation and/or reason for your action. E.g., when closing a bug report, please mention whether, how and where you fixed it. Thanks again! Stefan On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:09:13PM +0200, Stefan Manegold wrote:

Dear all,

since the last MonetDB "BugDay" on Dec 19 2005, many bugs have been reported and fixed.

Unfortunately, not all bug reports that have been closed since then have been backed-up by a test script in CVS to verify and monitor to validity of the respective bug fix, as described in the "MonetDB Bug-Etiquette" (cf. one of http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9021727&forum_id=39803 http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=9021726&forum_id=42505 )

According to the "MonetDB Bug-Etiquette", a bug report should (may/must) not be closed without adding a respective test to our test system in CVS.

While both the user/submitter that reports the bug and the developer/assignee that fixes it should share the task of "designing" the test and adding it to the test system in CVS, we agreed that the developer/assignee is finally "responsible" that the test is indeed added *before* the bug report is closed.

To ensure the stability and correctness of MonetDB and its companions and to avoid that supposedly fixed bug sneak in again unnoticed, I'd like to ask all of you that reported and/or fix any bug(s) since Dec 19 2005 the following favour:

Please check all "your" bugs (see * below) since Dec 19 2005, whether a test has been added or not. + If the comments in the bug report are not clear, please check the CVS repository. + If you're a user/submitter and don't know where to look or what to do, please remind the respective developer/assignee of your bug by added a respective comment and re-opening the bug report. + If there is a test, or no test is necessary or feasible, but the bug-report does not mention this clearly, please add a new comment that explains the situation. + If there is no test although there should be one, please re-open the bug report with a respective comment to indicate that a test must be added. As said before, "users/submitters" are welcome to help adding tests, but developers/assignees are finally responsible that the tests are indeed added.

Please recall, we plan to release MonetDB 4.12, MonetDB/SQL 2.12 and MonetDB/XQuery 0.12 soon (i.e., before the end of this month), and we all want them to be as stable and "bug-free" as possible...!

Feel free to use these channels to comment and/or ask questions.

Thank you all very much for your contributions to make MonetDB even better than it already is!

Kind regards,

Stefan

*) To find "your" bugs, just - go to http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=56967&atid=482468 , - select your username from the list "Assignee:", - or enter your username as "Submitter username (show mine):" (and set "Assignee:" to "Any"), - set "Status:", "Category:" & "Group:" to "Any", - set "Sort By:" to "Open Date" and "Descending", - and click on "Browse".

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-- | Dr. Stefan Manegold | mailto:Stefan.Manegold@cwi.nl | | CWI, P.O.Box 94079 | http://www.cwi.nl/~manegold/ | | 1090 GB Amsterdam | Tel.: +31 (20) 592-4212 | | The Netherlands | Fax : +31 (20) 592-4312 |