Re: [Rd] Alpha and Beta testing of R versions

2005-11-04 Thread Simon Urbanek
On Nov 4, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > Martin's point is generally very valid, but in the case of the > 2.2.0 release remarkably few of the bugs found since release were > new in 2.2.0. > One thing we have learnt is that none of the testers seem to look > at HTML help (which

Re: [Rd] Alpha and Beta testing of R versions

2005-11-04 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Martin's point is generally very valid, but in the case of the 2.2.0 release remarkably few of the bugs found since release were new in 2.2.0. One thing we have learnt is that none of the testers seem to look at HTML help (which accounts for 2 of the 4 2.2.0-only bugs I counted). What we need mo