[Testing] Activity Testing Matrix

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Samuel Klein 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.

Absolutely.  So I guess *I* need to understand all the things that an 
activity developer needs to be doing, heh.

Is there one good page that contains the canonical information for "what 
an activity developer must to do get their activity ready for prime time"?

--g

> 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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Greg DeKoenigsberg
Community Development Manager
Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
"To whomsoever much hath been given...
...from him much shall be asked"