[Testing] Activity Testing Matrix

Samuel Klein sj at laptop.org
Mon Nov 12 20:36:23 EST 2007


I like it.  Also, during phase one, we need to tell activity developers 
the other things they should be doing : versioning their activity, putting 
both source links and links to an .xo file online, adding metadata and 
test plans.  Ditto for library bundle creators; bundles are bundles.

SJ


On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

>
> So looks like folks are starting to try it out.
>
> Here's what I'd like to do next.
>
> Phase One, PUBLICIZE TO DEVELOPERS.  I want every activity developer to know 
> that *this is the place* to link their activities and plans for testing.  So 
> I would like to send an email where activity developers will read it.  Should 
> this note go to devel at laptop.org?  sugar at laptop.org? Other places?
>
> After developers have had a few days to (a) put their activity info up on the 
> matrix, (b) try to puzzle out test cases, (c) point out the places where the 
> process is probably busted, and (d) complain about how terribly inefficient a 
> wiki-based system is for QA (heh), I'd like to move on to...
>
> Phase Two, PUBLICIZE TO EVERYONE ELSE.  And I mean *everyone* else. Fedora 
> folks, Ubuntu folks, Debian folks, SuSE folks.  LUG mailing lists. Slashdot. 
> Digg.  The message should look like this: "OLPC needs your help, RIGHT NOW. 
> All you need is a modern Linux distro (or even a Windows machine) and a 
> couple of hours a day for the next several weeks, and you can be intimately 
> involved in the most important software project in the history of mankind."
>
> Any objection to this plan?  Pointers?  Comments?
>
> --g
>
> -- 
> Greg DeKoenigsberg
> Community Development Manager
> Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
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> ...from him much shall be asked"
>


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