In our most recent community conference call, we began putting our ducks in a row for a launch of a Melody 1.0 beta. Our first line of business? Bring the product to a level of quality we feel necessary to support a community of beta testers. The best way for us to do that is to build out a robust set of unit tests that we can rely on to assure a baseline level of quality going forward.
The good news is that Movable Type has a massive number of unit tests. The bad news is that most of them fail. (cough… wheeeze) So our focus in the coming weeks will be systematically go through each unit test suite and get them all to pass. It is daunting task, but we know that by working together in a concerted way, we can easily tackle it. So we are doing two things:
First, we invite the community to join us for a day long hackathon on January 20th in which we work together in fixing as many unit tests as we can. The person who fixes the most will win a $100 Amazon Gift Certificate.
Second, to prepare for the event we will be holding an hour long training session the week before (January 13, 2010 at 10:00 PST) in which we will introduce people to the Melody development environment and methodology. Jay Allen, our Chief Code Ranger will present a brief overview on unit testing in Perl, git and making contributions to the product. Then we will all delight in watching Byrne stumble through the process himself. It promises to be a worthwhile learning experience for everyone who participates. RSVP now!
Melody Debugging and Unit Testing Training Seminar
Wednesday, Jan 13, 2010
10:00am PST
Do you guys have any updated timetables for a public release?