jing zhang wrote:
> 2010/4/5, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> jing zhang wrote:
>>> 2010/4/5, tytso@xxxxxxx <tytso@xxxxxxx>:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 09:05:14AM +0800, jing zhang wrote:
>>>>
>>>> How much testing are you doing before submitting patches, out of
>>>> curiosity?
>>> Yes, Ted, it is curiosity that drives me to do hard works, including patch
>>> ext4.
>> It is the language barrier that is making some of this difficult,
>> but I'm not complaining - you speak English much better than I speak any
>
> You are good guy:) Is English your native language? And, I am curious,
> what is the second language you are able to speak, Eric?
Only a little German.
>> second language. :)
>>
>> Ted meant that -he- was curious about how much testing you were doing.
>
> How do know what Ted meant, by iphone?
No, because I am a native English speaker and I understood the
figure of speech. ("out of curiosity")
> I am not good at testing, partially because it is hard to setup the
> required environment, sometimes several hard disks are needed, maybe a
> few boxes, but I try to analyse the C code while reading and
> understanding the works by great maintainers and developers of Linux
> kernel.
Testing really is critical to development; some things can be done by
inspection, but if you don't test it is hard to know if you made a
mistake.
You can always test inside a vm, or on a loopback file, on a single box.
Without testing, you are asking others to do testing for you
(unless the change is so obvious that it can be trusted)
-Eric
> - zj
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