after a discussion on IRC a few guys agrees that we need to improve the testing of firmware and handle releases in a better way.
We have a documented release system in firmware_revision.h, which basically is split into three decimal numbers
- Major version (currently 1)
- This is rarely incremented, requires a major rewrite and resign of code
- Minor version (currently 0)
- This should be incremented as soon as a firmware update changes config variables and affects tuning software
- Build version (currently 29ish)
- This is currently the only number increased, but should only be used for small updates that does not affect tuning part.
For this system to work, I think we should assign a testing team and release executives, who can flag that a version is stable and ready for the users. This guy is preferrably not directly involved with programming, but of course cooperates on a close level.
Any suggestions for test plan and possible candidates for a team leader / release executive are welcome on this page.
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Possible candidates for the executive post
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People willing to join the testing team, and devote some time to perform the future test plan for each release
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Test plan proposal