I would like to be a tester, I am disabled and at home most of the time.
This would give me a new chalange. If I can get Mandrake 7.2 working (see
previous posts)
Let me know how I can help
regards
Paul
On Saturday 06 January 2001 12:26, you wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2001 02:08, you wrote:
> > So sprach David Benfell am Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:46:20PM -0800:
> > > More likely, the answer is that they didn't really test this. And it
> > > suggests that the distributors are rushing out new versions without an
> > > acceptable level of testing.
> >
> > Not tested? Have you ever heard about Cooker? That's the testbed for
> > the upcoming distribution, and it's public. Do you know of any other
> > ditributor besides Debian that openly (like in really everyone can try
> > it) tests the new distribution like this?
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
>
> What is an acceptable level? For free software? This is a question
> without an obvious analytical answer. In fact the only answers I get are
> opinions, usually one unique opinion per responder.
>
> But for those who don't think there is enough testing, you are invited ...
>
> To be a tester.
>
> The pay is terrible ($0), but the satisfaction of helping the free software
> community produce better software and my personal pledge to help you
> configure your system for the next distro (by email) do come with the
> package.
>
> This is not "smoke" testing where we start a program and see if it
> crashes--this will be functionality testing and quantifying impressions;
> that is, rating the software. Furthermore, the testing reports will be
> available so users have something to check when deciding which software to
> employ for a particular task. (You might not care if a spreadsheet's greek
> letter ability for formulas is 75% functional if you are making pie charts
> but you WOULD care if the logos were displaying in a funky font).
>
> But if you would like to see more testing, here is a new channel, not
> designed to interfere with cooker, but to add to it, where you CAN do
> something about it.
>
> Civileme
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> QA/Software testing
