[sf-perl] Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Smolder 0.3 (1.0 RC1)

[Andy Lester]

Since we were discussing aggregating test results....

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> From: Michael Peters <mpeters at plusthree.com>
> Date: August 16, 2006 1:20:30 PM PDT
> To: cgi-app <cgiapp at lists.erlbaum.net>, perl-qa <perl-qa at perl.org>,  
> smolder-devel <smolder-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>, smolder-users  
> <smolder-users at lists.sourceforge.net>, mod_perl  
> <modperl at perl.apache.org>
> Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Smolder 0.3 (1.0 RC1)
>
> Smolder 0.3 has arrived. This is the first release candidate  
> towards 1.0.
>
> Smolder is web-based smoke test aggregator used by developers and  
> testers to
> upload (automated or manually) and view smoke/regression tests  
> using the Test
> Anything Protocol. Details and trends can be viewed in various  
> formats (HTML,
> XML, YAML) and also via email.
>
> Changes in the last 2 minor releases are:
>
>    0.3 (1.0 RC1)
>
>    * Mark tests that have files that exit with a non-zero status  
> that use
>      ’no_plan’ to be marked as failing - M. Peters
>    * Allow anonymous smoke tests added to public projects - M. Peters
>    * Added public projects - M. Peters
>    * Upgrading to Apache 1.3.36 - M. Peters
>    * Auto-purging of old compressed XML files by  
> ProjectFullReportsMax config
>      directive - M. Peters
>    * Better caching headers for static files - M. Peters
>    * Fixed building of SQLite on some platforms - Mark Stosberg
>    * Searchable HTML versions of docs - M. Peters
>    * Fixing graph generation bug when using SQLite - Sam Tregar
>    * Compressed XML storage and acceptance during upload - M.  
> Peters, Sam Tregar
>    * Runtime errors sometimes being lost - Sam Tregar, M. Peters
>    * Removed un-used mod_ssl sources and build - M. Peters
>
>    0.2
>
>    * Turn on mod_auth_tkt for all dynamic requests so that Apache  
> auth stages
>      are run and valid credentials produced - M. Peters
>    * Added smolder_prove, to run any normal Perl tests for smolder  
> - M. Peters
>    * Send the port number in URLs in emails - Sam Tregar
>    * Skip the authinfo test if Apache is not running - Sam Tregar
>    * Added missing modules to src (XML::Parser, XML::SAX::Expat,
>      Exception::Class and Exception::Class::TryCatch) - Sam Tregar
>    * Using a smaller number of Apache children and  
> Apache::SizeLimit to limit
>      any memory hogging - M. Peters
>    * Added built-in SQLite support - (M. Peters, Mark Stosberg)
>    * Added multi-db support via Smolder::DBPlatform - M. Peters
>    * Upgraded DBI to 1.50 - M. Peters
>    * Added notification to the user of failed AJAX requests - M.  
> Peters
>
> Smolder can be download from
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/smolder
>
> Thanks to Mark Stosberg and Sam Tregar for the help and for Plus  
> Three, LP for
> sponsoring my work on this, as well as providing guinea pigs.
>
> -- 
> Michael Peters
> Developer
> Plus Three, LP
>

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