[development] best pratices, test environment, patch review: clues how to make easier to contribute

[Jerad Bitner]

Ryan, thanks!

I started another thread on this subject not knowing these pages exist.

~Jerad

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Ryan Cross <drupal at ryancross.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
> <mail at webthatworks.it> wrote:
>
> > There is not a compact knowledge base of several techniques that may
> > make more profitable for people that already maintain drupal sites
> > to contribute to core and contrib. I think that most developers are
> > still applying common wisdom and their own hand made recipes.
> >
>
> Actually, there is....
> http://drupal.org/patch/review
>
> and in more general there is the entire contributors guide handbook about
> this.
>
> >
> > If tests are already automatically made on submitted patches,
> > preparing a testing environment isn't so critical for a patch
> > reviewer, but it could come handy for a developer.
> >
>
> One of the major reasons for push to get unit tests written is so that
> this basic type of review can be automated within the issue queue. You
> can already load these tests yourself and test them automatically.
>
> > The material about how to put up a dev/review environment is sparse.
>
> again not correct..... Setting up a test environment to review
> patches: http://drupal.org/node/28245
>
> However, I think that most of this problem is not really a lack of
> documentation for doing these reviews. Anyone that is sufficiently
> interested can find this stuff out or ask someone and learn very
> easily. I think more of this issue is community and infrastructure
> based.
>
> -Ryan
>
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