Re: Calling for testers: scratch/gnus-decoded branch

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>
>>> Or ask professional computer people, in the
>>> IT-industry! As they work 70+ hours a week
>>> they seem to have even more time...
>>
>> Hey Emanuel! You don't seem busy, do you
>> build Emacs from git? Want to help me test
>> the scratch/gnus-decoded branch?
>
> First, I'm busy. I run a bike repair shop.
> It is on a DIY basis, but someone has to
> maintain order and see to it every day that its
> clean and tools aren't abused and end up it
> their right places, clean and operational and
> ready to use for the next guy. Here is a couple
> of photos [1]. I don't sleep many hours
> a night, believe me.

I know, I was just being a jerk ;)

> Second, while I'd love to help, I don't know
> how to do it in that form. My Gnus is so
> super-configured and -extended it would be near
> impossible to track what and where an error
> would be, if I found one. I don't even know how
> to use Gnus without all that extra stuff of
> mine. I'd be completely lost.

It's the easiest kind of help I'm asking for -- just turn it on and see
if it explodes! The branch in question has to do with the encoding and
coding of group names. If you have groups with non-ascii names in
particular (accents, etc), it would be helpful just to know if they
display correctly, if you can jump to it, move articles into and out of
them, etc.

I've just pushed another commit to the branch which means you don't have
to backup your .newsrc.eld before testing the branch. I mean, you still
ought to, but the code shouldn't mess with the format of the file.

Anyway, no one has any obligation to spend time on this! It was mean of
me to single you out, it was only because you showed up in the thread :)

Eric