My cross-posting to dev and qa lists is deliberate; if you find that it is the wrong thing to do, I shall have to apologize.
On the dev list, On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 10:31 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: > There has been a lot of discussion in the past about raised > assertions and how seriously they should be treated. Is > there a current concensus? > > I raise the question again for no better reason than that > even a newbie like me can see a raised assertion and collect > a backtrace. Guidance welcome. > And on the dev list, On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 10:12 -0700, julien2412 wrote: > I know that it comes from Apache but what about > http://logging.apache.org/log4cxx/ ? > log4j is quite used in Java world, I don't know the state of log4cxx but it > could help. Oh my, what a lot of different dimensions there are to this question! I was hoping that a consensus had formed since the last time I asked the question, but that hope seems to be frustrated. Thoughts arising ... (*) We are *far* away from a code contribution. (Sorry, Stephan. I had a couple of raised assertions "in hand" when I asked, and I thought I might be able to clarify the conditions leading to one of them. After your answer Monday, I was not able to make them happen again under gdb. Sigh.) So, it would be good to move the discussion elsewhere. Perhaps ... - A wiki page. Is there an obvious place to put one? But considering how far we are moving from the existing code, perhaps a personal page would be better. I *think* I am allowed to create one. - The qa list. I assume, subject to correction, that assertions are mostly for the benefit of quality assurance. (*) There is an ongoing discussion <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/2011-October/000240.html> on the qa lilst about automated testing of LibreOffice. (Thirty-nine messages so far. Again, I thought I was asking a small, modest question.) Making either detection or diagnosis of problems either faster or more effective would justify a lot of effort. Is there any place outside of automated testing that would make the effort worthwhile? Thank you for your attention, Terry. _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: [email protected] Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/
