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[R-pkg-devel] Development Testers?

4 messages · Charles Determan, Boris Steipe, Martin Maechler

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Charles Determan
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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
Boris Steipe
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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
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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

        
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> 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.

I (as one of the moderators) don't have a strong view on this
for this special case, but would actually recommend to use
R-devel (or even R-help) for this, rather than R-package-devel,
because the latter is indeed quite focused (with a somewhat different
focus).

And yes, for the specific, I'd strongly recommend  R-SIG-HPC (in
addition, i.e., with the very rare case of sensible cross posting).

Best regards,
Martin


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Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core Team

    > 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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