I wanted to try out Microsoft’s Flip4Mac which looked like it would be pretty neat. see it here
Unfortunately it isn’t a universal build so it doesn’t work on intel macs. Why is this? Everything released for mac should be universal at this point. Hopefully this will get fixed soon and people will start seeing the light.
If something can be automated it should be. Some of the other testlink developers have been sending manual e-mails every time they do several commits. This is a complete waste of time and is completely repetitive. I set up automatic commit e-mails that get forwarded to a mailing list to improve this. This is better in many ways and should have been done a long time ago. The information everyone gets will be much more consistent this way. If people still want to send manual e-mails they can still do this as well. It really is just better every way you look at it. How many other changes are there like this that should be made?
This is the way I feel, but apparently not others. Recently in testlink this has caused somewhat of a stir. I have proposed that we move our code hosted on sourceforge to subversion. This is because sourceforge has finally just enabled this. There will be many benefits to making this move. Others think we should wait several months though and focus on 1.7. The issue I see with this is that it means we have to continue to work around our broken process for several more months. This is too bad. Hopefully we can get to this point sooner rather than later, and start seeing the benefits now.
I had to setup eclipse to use an http proxy today. This is relatively easy to setup other than that it must be setup in several areas for different components. i.e. cvs ssh has its own proxy configuration. There is also no non-proxy list like there normally is in other apps. This means for the situation that I’m in where internal cvs servers don’t use the proxy will currently force me to chane the settings every time I want to work on each different project.
There should be one single place to configure proxies within eclipse and other apps. This shoud be a global setting for all network connections within the app and there should also be a list of hosts that will not use the proxy. Firefox is doing this the right way and other apps should follow suit.