Re: Future Test Suite release process

On 26-06-13 18:23, Gavin Carothers wrote:
> While the ship has already sailed on the Turtle Test Suite, for all of our
> other test suites I'd like to make sure we end up with a process where
> changes to the test suite are more visible.
>
> Test suites are already assembled in the rdf-wg mercurial hg repository,
> once we are prepared to publish it we should create a tag and simply put
> the copy of the Test Suite at that tag in CVS. If there are changes to be
> made to the Test Suite after that we simply make them in mercurial  and
> republish with a new tag, again making a copy into CVS space. As the WG,
> and general public can't see the changes tracked in CVS it doesn't work
> well for transparency. (Unless of course they can in which case can someone
> point to where)
>
> Steps:
>
> 1. Create Test Suite in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/
> 2. Resolve to publish Test Suite
> 3. Tag specific revision in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/
> 4. Copy tree from https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/ to
> http://www.w3.org/2013/CVS space
> 5. Updates are made to http://www.w3.org/2013/
>
> New publications begin at step 2 again.

Excellent plan. I suggest to record this process on the RDF Tests wiki 
page.
Guus

>
> Cheers,
> Gavin
>

Received on Thursday, 27 June 2013 10:49:59 UTC