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filter, in fact), I observed some design flaws in the core, that make it
very hard to test single components/classes without having dependencies
to the whole system including the database stuff.

Some few design changes and refactorings in the core could improve the
testability strongly. If you (or other commiters) are interested in,
I'll give you you some examples...

> Thus I'd like to propose that:
>
> A) We become very very careful when committing things and we only  
> commit when we can *guarantee* that what we've done is working (with a  
> given level of confidence of course). This can only be achieved  
> through tests being committed at the same time as the code is committed
> [...]
> C) In general we reduce the number of changes that we commit and  
> instead we focus on tests and stability. This is indeed one of the  
> general goals for 1.4.
>
> WDYT?
+1

-Marco