[Rd] [External] Re: Testing before release (was: edit() doubles backslashes when keep.source=TRUE)

[iuke-tier@ey m@iii@g oii uiow@@edu]

On Fri, 15 May 2020, Abby Spurdle wrote:

> This perhaps diverges from the intent of the thread, but...
>
> I wanted to say I'm extremely grateful to the people who go the
> through the bug reports.
> It's an extremely important job (in the long run, particularly), but
> perhaps not quite as "sexy"-sounding as other roles, and probably
> under-valued.
>
> So, thank you to the bug-fixers...

Yes: Thank You!!

Best,

luke

>
> :)
>
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 2:54 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 15/05/2020 9:41 a.m., Martin Maechler wrote:
>> [ deletions ]
>>> <whining>
>>>
>>>      Why does nobody anymore  help R development by working with
>>>      "R-devel", or at least then the alpha, beta and the "RC"
>>>      (Release Candidate) versions that we release daily for about one
>>>      month before the final release?
>>>
>>>      Notably a highly staffed enterprise such as Rstudio (viz the bug
>>>      report 17800 above), but also others could really help by
>>>      starting to use the "next version" of R on a routine basis ...
>>>
>>> <whining/
>> I understand the whining, bugs that get released are embarrassing.  But
>> when I read the NEWS, I can see that both the NEW FEATURES and BUG FIXES
>> sections of x.y.0 releases tend to be much longer than the BUG FIXES
>> sections in patch releases.  That seems to indicate that things are
>> working reasonably well.
>>
>> For a really rough measure, just counting bullet points:
>>
>> R 4.0.0:  65 new features, 55 bug fixes
>>
>> R 3.6.3:  1 new feature, 7 bug fixes
>>
>> R 3.6.2:  2 new features, 21 bug fixes
>>
>> R 3.6.1:  0 new features, 16 bug fixes
>>
>> R 3.6.0:  72 new features, 62 bug fixes
>>
>> You can get these numbers programmatically:
>>
>> R4 <- news()
>> table(R4$Category)
>>
>> R3 <- news(package = "R-3")
>> table(R3$Version, R3$Category)
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
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