[Testing] Activity Testing Matrix

[SJ Klein]

I don't mean to be picky, but if they don't have version info, or links to 
a proper bundle, or test plans, it's less likely that someone will be able 
to test.   SJ


On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Kim Quirk wrote:

> Greg,
> Sounds great.
>
> SJ - I know we need to get these other pieces of information out to
> developers, but it might be best not to mix messages and give development
> info in a separate message from testing info. But I'm not against it, if it
> is the best way to get the proper attention.
>
> Kim
>
> On Nov 12, 2007 8:36 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>> "To whomsoever much hath been given...
>>> ...from him much shall be asked"
>>>
>>
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