Message-ID: <CAKxd1KPSToQ9Rwq3kiiZVKGqVqGvWHu1a0kapvcqKhuop498Gw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2016-02-06T16:33:03Z
From: Charles Determan
Subject: [R-pkg-devel] Development Testers?
In-Reply-To: <560AD7FA-17DF-41B1-AE2D-B67B1081F65C@utoronto.ca>
Thanks Boris,
My main concern I suppose is if this mailing list is appropriate to
occasionally solicit additional testers. Just curious what people (i.e.
Admins) would think about using the list for such a purpose.
Regards,
Charles
On Friday, February 5, 2016, Boris Steipe <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Of course I can speak only for myself, but I'd help out if asked and I
> think in general you'll find people here to be a pretty helpful bunch.
>
> Cheers,
> Boris
>
>
> On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for the R mailing lists but
> > I'm not sure where else to ask.
> >
> > I am wondering if there is any means by which package authors can solicit
> > testers for a package. I believe this is often referred to as 'crowd
> > sourced testing'.
> >
> > I am aware of continuous integration platforms and unit testing (e.g.
> > testthat) but that only gets me so far. In my particular instance I am
> > developing packages for GPU computing (maybe this request would be best
> on
> > the HPC mailing list?). As such, I can't possibly have access to every
> > type of GPU. I would like to find a means of 'recruiting' users who may
> > have different pieces of hardware to test my package. Of course this
> won't
> > be exhaustive but any additional testing that others could provide would
> > make the package all the more stable.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Charles
> >
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