Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (146 mails)

["Ivan N. Zlatev" <contact@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Alberto Passalacqua
<alberto.passalacqua@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have thought for quite some time to the idea of building a
> community-based openSUSE testing team, and this seems to be the right
> time to discuss of it.
>
> The main idea is to create a group of stable testers to deeply test
> openSUSE functionalities on their machines, in order to catch annoying
> bugs earlier in the development stages, allowing the fixes to be done
> and tested again in a more timely and less rushed manner.
>
> It won't be easy, we need motivated volunteers and we have a lot to
> learn to do it the right way, but I think it is worth the effort, if we
> want to keep faith to the guiding principles, which states openSUSE aims
> to be "the most usable Linux distribution" (and not the most cutting
> edge one!).
>
> I summed up the motivations, a short problem analysis about the current
> status quo, and some proposal of solution in the attached slides so you
> can comment them (thanks suseROCKs for the slide template).
>
> All suggestions (and volunteers) are more than welcome, as well as some
> help from Novell people currently involved in testing/quality assurance.
> As I said we need to learn. ;-)
>
> With kind regards,
> Alberto

I have tried testing factory and also official beta/alpha releases,
but huh... they were barely installable not to mention usable. And
that's in a virtual machine where we are talking basic hardware setup
and not something new and fancy. I see you have this issue pointed out
in the presentation.

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Kind Regards,
Ivan N. Zlatev
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