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Re: gtest account

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Mon Sep 11 19:23:24 2000

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Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:25:10 -0400
To: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: beland@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu

At this point, I would vote for the week of October 2.  However, if
something is ready this week, we can try it with some of the N42 people who
have expressed an interest.  I think it's too late to do anything more
formal this week.

My Humble Opinion.

Susan

At 6:40 PM -0400 9/11/00, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>>OK, Monday is over.  I still don't know where we stand on testing.
>
>I'd say we stand somewhere in the week of 2 October, but I'm willing to
>be contradicted if we have a menu scheme and no other fatal issues soon
>enough that we can aim for this week.
>
>That said, would there be interest and/or value in some subset of us
>getting together this week so that *we* could run through at least some
>of the tests?
>
>With regard to Beland's "major obstacles" list:
>
>   The major obstacles standing in our way right now:
>
>    - We have yet to settle on a scheme for the menu system.  I'm working
>      on a proposal which I hope to have ready by Saturday or Sunday.
>
>Consider yourself nudged.
>
>    - I was testing with gZephyr, and I noticed it has yet to have
>      (group) and (topic) labels added to "class" and "instance."  It
>      also crashed when I clicked on the user list.
>
>Now that classes have started, what's the development status of gZephyr?
>
>    - There's a bug which is causing subwindows spawned by the panel to
>      show up in the taskbar.
>
>If we're actually around at the same time, please demonstrate this to me,
>I'm unable to duplicate it unless the failure case is more specific than
>stated here.


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