Compusure Drupal development

There has been some discussion on the mailing list previous week concerning lack of reviewers for drupal patches. One of the reasons that came up was the fact it takes some time to set up a new clean environment to test a new patch. Given: download latest head (or better checkout from cvs), create or empty (existing) database, setting permissions, apply patch, add content, test by hand, run all simpletests, do some benchmarks (with every possible caching in mind) .. it does involve some point and click.
While doing some benchmark tests this week for the DBTNG patch (congrats Crell!), I probably repeated this complete set of tasks a couple of times - however, I didn't mind, it's for the benefit of everyone: Drupal, patch writers and also myself. Wow, that really sounds terribly squishy right ?read more