[Geany-Devel] Helping Geany move forward: testing

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 27.04.2017 um 22:51 schrieb Vasiliy Faronov:
> Hi all,
>
>  From discussions elsewhere, such as [1], it sounds like one of the
> things holding back Geany development right now is a need for more
> testing.

Helping to test PRs is truly needed, and much appreciated.

However, I do think that Geany lacks also actual developers that cna 
merge stuff. I feel the current team is afraid of merging non-trivial 
changes, leaving even semi-complex patches to Colomban. Unfortunately 
Colomban has little time these days, too, so we're kind of stuck. There 
are lots of PRs that have recent activity from the authors and are 
tested appropriately but still don't get attention from developers.

So I think we need more people that can push code to Geany directly, 
effectively dividing the workload onto more people. It's just too much 
work for a single developer, especially these days.

Unless this situation improves, I'm afraid that intensive testing of PRs 
is nice but kind of a wasted effort. This is worsened by the fact that 
"unpreviliged" testers can't assign labels in Github, it's really hard 
to get an overview about which PRs have received extended testing.

In the meantime, we're scaring contributors away because contributes 
aren't looked at in a timely manner.

Take this as an application. I would love to actively help if I'm 
granted push or github-label-set access.

Best regards.