[Testing] Displaying testing metrics in motivating ways

[Mel Chua]

Since Cjl is out of town, I'm seeding this conversation on his behalf.

Questions we need to address:

1. Which data/metrics do our stakeholders want to see? In what format, 
with what frequency?
2. What tools can we construct/repurpose/use to automate #1?

Thoughts so far, from Cjl with some of my edits:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Community_testing_meetings/2008-11-06/Displaying_testing_metrics_in_motivating_ways

Please discuss.

Actually, even better than discussion - if you have an idea for this 
that will take you less than 1 hour to implement, Do It. If you have an 
idea that will take you more than 1 hour to implement, take that hour to 
write up the idea and what kind of resources/effort it might take. 
Either way, put it on the wiki, post it to this list, and write yourself 
into the agenda for the next community test meeting to demo and request 
feedback/adoption.

I am firmly convinced that:

1. Our volunteer test community members are brilliant
2. many_people.smartness() > few_people.smartness()
3. Often, the best thing I can do to help facilitate great work by 
volunteers is to Get The Heck Out Of Their Way. (/Maybe/ sometimes to 
get other things the heck out of their way as well. Maybe.)

-- 
Mel Chua
QA/Support Engineer
mel at laptop.org