[Testing] Journal and Tubes Minutes from 9/18/07

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Kim Quirk wrote:
>>
>>     * Some of the changes that were added recently to the journal
>>       caused some unstability. At this point we need to know what else
>>       is needed to feel good about the journal in terms of tracking
>>       activities, resuming, basic search, working with a USB stick,
>>       and installing bundled files from USB and from browse (XO and
>>       XOL). Marco and Ben will try to provide an update later today or
>>       tomorrow on recommended fixes to get to stability.
>>
>
> I started to look into the journal issues only yesterday, what I found 
> so far are just several small bugs which are easy to fix but requires 
> some time to track them down. I'm confident we can get to a good 
> stability pretty quickly but we need more focus an more testing.
>
> * I need to focus on bug fixing and having to think about new problems 
> makes me a lot less effective at it. To help this a bit can we have 
> Ben working with cscott an wad about a solution to human readable 
> files? I will do the USB bit we discussed today but the backups 
> problem is larger and more complex. I don't expect to need a lot of 
> help from Ben with the stabilization work.
>
> * We need a lot more testing on the journal than what we did so far. I 
> and Simon will be doing some of it but it would be really useful to 
> have someone from the testing team to focus on it too. Maybe AlexL can 
> help us out? The less time we spend testing the more we have to 
> actually fix stuff.

The exception to this is .xol files, we are still waiting meaningful 
input from sj on that one.

Marco