[Testing] Activity Testing Matrix

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, SJ Klein wrote:

> Not really.  [[Activity bundle] and [[creating an activity]] both exist; 
> the list of things that Must Be Done should be linked form the top of 
> the [[activity]] page...

Lemme work on that today.

By end of day today, I'd like to have a draft of "The Developer Email" 
that gets sent everywhere.  I want to make sure that first communication 
is clear and concise, and gets people moving.

--g


> SJ
>
> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>
>> 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"
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 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"