The specific feature I was going to implement was an admin view link that would show the usernames of people who had upvoted / downvoted a comment.
Thanks for trying to work on that one!
setting up new user accounts for testing purposes was a huge pain.
This seems like the sort of thing that we should be able to include with whatever makes the admin account that’s already there; I was watching someone running a test yesterday and while I showed them the way to award accounts karma, I didn’t know of a way to force the karma cache to invalidate, and so they had to wait ~15 minutes to be able to actually make a post with their new test account.
These sorts of usability improvements—a pull request that just adds comments for a section of code you spent a few hours understanding, an improvement to the setup script that makes the dev environment better, are sorely needed and greatly appreciated. In particular, don’t feel at all bad about changing the goal from “I’m going to close out issue X” to “I’m going to make it not as painful to have test accounts,” since those sorts of improvements will lead to probably more than one issue getting closed out.
Thanks for trying to work on that one!
This seems like the sort of thing that we should be able to include with whatever makes the admin account that’s already there; I was watching someone running a test yesterday and while I showed them the way to award accounts karma, I didn’t know of a way to force the karma cache to invalidate, and so they had to wait ~15 minutes to be able to actually make a post with their new test account.
These sorts of usability improvements—a pull request that just adds comments for a section of code you spent a few hours understanding, an improvement to the setup script that makes the dev environment better, are sorely needed and greatly appreciated. In particular, don’t feel at all bad about changing the goal from “I’m going to close out issue X” to “I’m going to make it not as painful to have test accounts,” since those sorts of improvements will lead to probably more than one issue getting closed out.