[olpc-nz] Today's/Tonight's QA Phone Call Conclusions & Unofficial Minutes

[Holt]

* Sri Lanka's great gift of 10 full-time testing people over 1.5 months 
(starting Mch 8?) can help us build back 2008's very inspiring community 
testing drive:
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Friends_in_testing
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases_8.2.0
   Thanks to the Virtusa Corporation donating these 10 employees, and 
proven formal methods we'll integrate alongside, like: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Unified_Process

 > Build 10.10 latest, 201 to be released soon (explanation development 
builds: 100s - unsigned builds, 200s - signed builds)

* CORRECTION: os110 is the latest development build; os111, os112 etc 
will likely follow.
    os201 is the latest signed/stable build on the early production 
XO-1.5 laptops; os202 may not happen for a little while?
    All XO-1.5 builds are available here:
    http://build.laptop.org/10.2.0

* Chamindra (Sri Lanka Testing Lead) explains the great streamlining 
power of:
   http://blog.TestLink.org
   Writing test cases and following them are a snap -- once someone 
installs this PHP site?

* The Sri Lankan team is familiar with open sources methods, but 
Cultural intros structuring/cleaning http://dev.laptop.org/1.5 and 
http://dev.sugarlabs.org will be extremely important.

* While the XO-1.5's OS/Sugar Activities (and Gnome too) will certainly 
be our core focus, side projects will hopefully also be important too:

    - XO-1 : backporting Fedora 11 for ~1.5 million XO's already out 
there? (Steve Parrish in North Carolina cc'd, please clarify your 
testing needs!)
       http://wiki.laptop.org/go/F11_for_XO-1

    - Similarly Martin Langhoff's possible Release 8.2.2:
       
http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2009-December/thread.html#26750
       http://dev.laptop.org/~martin/8.2.2-betas/

    - Sugar 0.88 (Holt asks Simon Schampijer in Berlin: what 
testing/reporting he wants in March/April?)
       http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.88/Testing

    - Translation work (Sri Lankan team can start / recheck right away)
       http://translate.sugarlabs.org/si/

* Sri Lanka shipping address and phone number by Friday morning please!

* Several early production XO-1.5's should also head to New Zealand if 
Tim McNamara clarifies a shipping address and phone number!


Tim McNamara wrote:
> Attendees:
> [Holt], James, Chamindra, Kapila, Tim
>
> *Discusion Items*
> XOs to Sri Lanka, concern about customs duties. 6 * XOs 1.5, 2 * XO 1
>
> 1300 XOs in country. May have better relationship with customs. 
> DHL/FedEx do have contractual responsibilities to pay all duties. 
>
> // Introductions 
>
> James - [OLPC's] systems test coordinator - Aus business days - 
> testing XOs 1.5, mainly hardware/kernel - integration between Sugar & 
> h/w features. lots of problems w/ software components. Problems with 
> kernel that are not huge issues. SugarLabs have issues. Important to 
> test. Produce lots of laptops. We think we have solved with laptops / 
> peripher[al]s. Problems shouldn't arise.
>
> Software stack, Fedora 11 / where possible we fix the issues & send 
> upstream. Sugar is the UI. 
>
> // Testing
>
> Testlink allows test cases to be replicated easily. At the moment, 
> there is no formal method for testing. Balance between 
> informal/formal methodology to testing to be struck. Formal methods 
> could available to the community. With Testlink, just be matter of 
> writing test cases & then moving testers toward the site.
>
> There seems to be a good past effort here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Test_cases
>
> "Friends in Testing" (Micheal Stone) community drive to do something 
> in the test suite. When a ticket is raised in OLPC, it's sent to Sugar. 
>
> // General Business
>
> Wtgn update: numbers seem limited, Tabitha has moved to Auckland - 
> recruitment needed
>
> Build 10.10 latest, 201 to be released soon (explanation development 
> builds: 100s - unsigned builds, 200s - signed builds)
>
> Sri Lankan team to focus on Sugar/activities testing.
>
> Other projects - will follow up via email
> - XO-1 backporting to Fedora
> - Translation work
> - Sugar 0.88
>
> *Next meeting*
> 14 days' time. [phone meetings will be Thursday every 2 weeks, 12:01am 
> (midnight) Eastern Time]
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