On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: > >QA netbooks (Björn) > I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the > budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests > came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so > the board has no advantage over the public lists), we want to > discuss this here in public, so Olivier, Björn and Charles should > elaborate on the plans. ;-)
The QA netbooks have already been discussed on QA Call. The idea is to have a budget for a set of netbooks that we can give publically as prizes to our most active QA contributors in QA marathons and triage contests. The idea is that this will: - motivate our current volunteers - growth our triager community - allow triagers who have been using one platform only to have a dedicated system for dual-boot Windows and Linux without any interruption of their daily work - same for versions As netbooks for testing and triaging are available now for 200-300EUR this IMHO something well worth it. There are still some tricky details to work out and discuss like: - how to get them to the volunteers without too much extra cost (shipping/handing them over at HackFests) - how to set the rules on 'winning' one of these without making it too complex or to easy to game the system Proposals on how to fix this for the next bug triage contest/QA marathon are most appreciated of course! Best, Bjoern
