Re: [HACKERS] Spikewatch testing

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 01:49:34PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Jim,
>
> > Spikewatch is testing a number of different open-source components,
> > including ours. If you click on a green datapoint, you can see what our
> > actual code-coverage was for that test (presumably they're running the
> > regression tests). Unfortunately, the banner ad I saw for them showed
> > MySQL (along with a bunch of other things), but not PostgreSQL.
>
> Yeah, there's portions of the web interface that still have wrong
> referents.   I'll bug them again about that.
>
> > Is it worth trying to promote this as a way to promote PostgreSQL? Also,
> > is it worth trying to improve our test coverage?
>
> Actually, they'll be running a contest (with prizes up to $2500) for
> improved test coverage for OSS applications.   I've been trying to get
> someone to commit to helping me on the contest, so that PostgreSQL can
> participate.

Can anyone step up for this now that things will hopefully calm down a
bit during beta? IIRC you just needed a commitment from a commiter,
right?
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Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant      jnasby@pervasive.com
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