Is it time to start regression testing yet?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Jun 8, 2009, at 5:46 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> It is also a very good way to get an exact idea of what ports are  
>> being installed.  You can then see that port x has been installed  
>> 400 times, 390 of those with no issues, 10 of those with some issue.
>
> I proposed this two years ago but was shot down because this was  
> considered an invasion of privacy and people didn't want MacPorts  
> "phoning home".

I believe the list consensus was that it would be fine provided it was  
'opt in'.

> I had wanted to have a nice status display on the MacPorts homepage  
> showing which ports were the most popular, for example. I see their  
> point, but I'm glad to re-open the topic if attitudes have changed.


... there's also the matter of someone doing the actual development  
work ;-)

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