[ts-gen] Yesterday's patches, and new testing

[R P Herrold]

I see in the overnight mail queue, Richard Pruss and Mike 
Thornton's pieces, and am both pleased and chagrined.

Gentlemen -- welcome aboard, and please know that we are 
thrilled to have other community members testing at 'head' 
from new venues and in currencies we do not and cannot see 
with our access rights.

Bill pushed emailed patches rather than a full release 
tarball because of a desire to give prompt feedback, and as he 
noted, because we are off in another segment of the code such 
that it was not convenient to roll a tarball that passed all 
tests this we use at the moment.

I suspect that (thank goodness) you each are seeing data 
streams which we do not, and also there may be built up state: 
currency, region, portfolio pending order, etc. in your setups 
which we do not see.  This is no problem, but we may be asking 
for binary traces (which the shim is already set up to produce 
automatically) out of band to run down interesting variants, 
and make sure the shim's parsers can handle them.

>From the flow of the posts, I think each of you have read the 
back mailing list archive (sadly a small corpus), and I am 
sure you can see we take external community user's exposed 
bugs VERY seriously, and if a 'quick fix' appears, will get it 
out promptly.  Alternatively, we may send a private or public 
note about the fact that something may take a little time, and 
hold the issue over for our weekly planning, and 'slot' its 
fix into our regular development.

We have Nils' May 1 journalling questions on the table from 
the community side [we also have in-house use cases, and 
commercial external private client sides], and have a design 
to address the matter in the process of implementation. 
There is a collection of longer term in-house goals we are 
working as well, and finally there is one open commercial 
issue at the moment.

Almost all of this is backed by test driven design; some of 
the in-house matter is and will remain 'explorational' and may 
be a dark alley that never sees the light of day as to 
discussion on the mailing list  ;)

But please know that we look forward to expanding the circle 
of participating community members working with us and the 
shim

-- Russ herrold