[olpc-nz] [Testing] Improving the reporting of test results

Samuel Klein sj at laptop.org
Wed Dec 22 00:16:18 EST 2010


That sounds lovely, thanks for explaining.    SJ

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> On 22 December 2010 15:53, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:51 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
>> <sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
>>
>>> In summary, I strongly urge testers to fully report their findings in
>>> the appropriate issues tracking system. In doing so, you make sure
>>> that the developers see your findings (thus making your testing
>>> worthwhile) and can easily act upon them.
>>
>>> Examples of tracking systems to submit to:
>>>
>>>  OLPC: http://dev.laptop.org/
>>>  Sugar Labs: http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/
>>>  OLPC Australia: http://dev.laptop.org.au/
>>
>> What is the intended scope of the OLPC Australia tracking system?
>
> In essence, we use our tracking system in the same way as OLPC and
> Sugar Labs use theirs. OLPC and Sugar Labs are downstream of projects
> such as Fedora and GNOME, using them as a base to develop their own
> software. Bugs found in an OLPC build are reported to OLPC, who can
> then (if appropriate) make a report to the relevant upstream. For
> example, someone might find a bug in Sugar on an XO. The correct place
> to report it initially is dev.laptop.org, not bugs.sugarlabs.org or
> bugzilla.redhat.com (used by Fedora). This is because the problem may
> have been introduced in the OLPC version.
>
> Likewise, we at OLPC Australia have been pursuing our own development.
> In some cases, this builds upon existing work. If someone finds a bug
> in one of our -au XO builds, it should be reported to us to examine
> first. We refer it upstream if we determine that it hasn't been caused
> by us.
>
> We also have developments that are not tied to an upstream, such as
> the Sugar activities that we are creating.
>
> What we are *not* doing is duplicating the jobs of other issues trackers.
>
> Cheers,
> Sridhar
>



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