CI's next release estimate? / CI Praise

[eluser]Derek Allard[/eluser]
Nearly anything new that's made it into CI in the last half year or so has worked like this. A dev approaches the team with a new feature and a proposed solution. No code at this point, or maybe just a proof of concept. The everyone beats up the concept, and polishes on a conceptual level. Then the code is written and tested (I tend to use bamboo for this where I can); and then released to the dev team. The dev team then beats down the code a bit more and tests, and then it gets in to the svn.

For example, for some of the new AR stuff that'll be going in, after I had gotten to the point of writing, testing and releasing, Derek Jones pointed out that I was using a string function that was only available in PHP 5 (first point, it takes a hell of a dev to catch that type of thing by eye). So he and Paul each suggested potential fixes, I implemented one, retested, then they retested. Code looked pretty solid, and then we discussed how a dev might want to use it, defaults, naming conventions, etc.

Its in our internal SVN now, where Jamie and the rest of us are torture testing it (again). That's not to say there aren't ever any bugs (I wish) but the code is pretty solid by that point