Hi, Il giorno lun, 04/05/2009 alle 08.55 -0600, Stephen Shaw ha scritto:
You might not get all the volunteers that you'd hope to have a very successful group, but if you start it and pursue it I'd imagine that over time it will grow because you have created the infrastructure.
Well I agree at a certain extent, but I don't think systematic testing can be done with the current number of people involved, simply because they're not working on it full-time. That's why I said "test it you your regular routine": something more specific and organized would required to divide tasks about participants, which implies a sufficient number of involved people.
Even if there are few, I'd still create a test plan. You might not be able to complete it, but at least there is a clear path to follow and anyone with a spare minute can jump in and complete a task or 2. I'll see if we can get access to testopia on bugzilla.novell.com. I think that could help with trying to build a community around testing.
I don't know. The idea didn't really attract the interest of users as I thought, and given the feedback it seems to me that setting up the infrastructure is going to be an effort which will be used only by a very limited number of interested people. At this point, instead of thinking to a stable test team, I would try to improve what already exists for those who are willing to report the issues they find. Also, I am not really willing to push the testing team idea much further, because I keep reading bad replies in bugzilla and on ML, where people reporting a problem is required to provide fix if they want a problem solved, and where the tone is frequently perceived as challenging for the reporter. This kind of behaviour is one of the reasons why people potentially interested in the testing idea did not show up, and I actually share the same feelings everytime I have to deal with bugzilla reports. If problems are not solved timely and the attitude towards who does the reporting activity change, the testing team idea can't become reality, but this cannot really come from the community. Best, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org