[R-pkg-devel] Development Testers?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Charles Determan <cdetermanjr at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 6 Feb 2016 10:33:03 -0600 writes:

    > Thanks Boris, My main concern I suppose is if this mailing
    > list is appropriate to occasionally solicit additional
    > testers.  Just curious what people (i.e.  Admins) would
    > think about using the list for such a purpose.

I (as one of the moderators) don't have a strong view on this
for this special case, but would actually recommend to use
R-devel (or even R-help) for this, rather than R-package-devel,
because the latter is indeed quite focused (with a somewhat different
focus).

And yes, for the specific, I'd strongly recommend  R-SIG-HPC (in
addition, i.e., with the very rare case of sensible cross posting).

Best regards,
Martin


--
Martin Maechler
ETH Zurich and R Core Team

    > Regards, Charles

    > On Friday, February 5, 2016, Boris Steipe
    > <boris.steipe at utoronto.ca> wrote:

    >> Of course I can speak only for myself, but I'd help out
    >> if asked and I think in general you'll find people here
    >> to be a pretty helpful bunch.
    >> 
    >> Cheers, Boris
    >> 
    >> 
    >> On Feb 5, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Charles Determan
    >> <cdetermanjr at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
    >> 
    >> > I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for the R
    >> mailing lists but > I'm not sure where else to ask.
    >> >
    >> > I am wondering if there is any means by which package
    >> authors can solicit > testers for a package.  I believe
    >> this is often referred to as 'crowd > sourced testing'.
    >> >
    >> > I am aware of continuous integration platforms and unit
    >> testing (e.g.  > testthat) but that only gets me so far.
    >> In my particular instance I am > developing packages for
    >> GPU computing (maybe this request would be best on > the
    >> HPC mailing list?).  As such, I can't possibly have
    >> access to every > type of GPU.  I would like to find a
    >> means of 'recruiting' users who may > have different
    >> pieces of hardware to test my package.  Of course this
    >> won't > be exhaustive but any additional testing that
    >> others could provide would > make the package all the
    >> more stable.
    >> >
    >> > Regards, > Charles
    >> >
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