[Python-Dev] Remove "unit test needed"

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Thu Aug 12 15:18:31 CEST 2010


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to see “unit test needed” removed from the workflow menu in
> the bug tracker. The reason is that we don't do test-driven development
> (or, at least, most of us don't) and this stage entry is therefore
> useless and confusing. Saying to someone that an unit test is needed
> happens during the patch review - it isn't a separate stage in itself.

Is that stage supposed to (at least partly) capture the idea
'reproducible test-case needed', or 'verification needed'?  That would
seem like a more useful notion.

Mark


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