Re: [PATCH 0/4] jk/version-string and google code

> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:52:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>>> When evaluating a change in the interoperability area, it does not
>>> add much more confidence to the correctness that the change has been
>>> in use for months with the same partner than that it has been used
>>> to talk to many different partners even for a short period of time,
>>> I guess.
>>
>> Traditionally our interoperability testing has been to cook things in
>> "next" and "master" and see if anybody complains. It would be nice to
>> have an interoperability test suite that could hit some common hosting
>> sites, as well as older versions of git-core itself. I suspect
>> automating that would be a big pain, though.
>
> I don't know that you need to hit the hosting sites themselves, just
> the implementations they are using. Dulwich and JGit are both open
> source. It should be possible to build a smallish compatibility test
> suite that grabs everyone into one tree, compiles a small test server
> from each, and runs the matrix locally. Then its up to the hosting
> sites to worry about making sure their implementations are included in
> this suite, and up-to-date.  :-)