Hi folks,
I received a Github issue about the SVG node: seems a couple of things don't work correctly on Safari/Chrome on MacOs. However I don't have a MacOS, and I don't know anything about MacOS... I remember that @hotNipi had recently also a Safari issue, and also no Safari test environment.
Would be nice if contributors had an easy way to test/troubleshoot their nodes quickly on other systems (like MacOS), because most of us have very limited free time to setup all kind of test environments...
I have started downloading an ISO image of MacOS, to use it inside VirtualBox on my Windows 10 portable. Don't know yet whether it will work, because the download will be finished in 17 hours ...
But seems that MacStadium offers free use of a Mac mini i5 for open source projects. Would be great if our community had something like that, an environment where we quickly could troubleshoot issues. However I'm not sure if this is possible, when looking at their qualifications:
I see a series of issues:
- We cannot request it ourselves, since a project lead needs to do that. And they are already very busy...
- I'm not sure whether requirement 3 is fulfilled, since IBM is involved.
- And suppose the setup would be approved, I assume the contributors (like me) are considered as third party. Which means we are not allowed to use it. But not sure...
- And the biggest challenge: suppose it would be approved, who is going to maintain the environment (e.g. Node-RED installation ...). Because one contributor might screw up the setup, causing problems for the next contributor.
After writing down the above issues that popup in my head while writing this post, it seems quite undoable...
Does anybody has a better idea?
Or does everybody need to setup his own test environments...
Bart
