On 05/03/2012 01:42 PM, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
Hi all,
with today's soft feature freeze for 4.9 the Beta testing gets closer and
closer.
I think we need to start preparing the beta phase and start discussing some
ideas in more detail if we want to change anything for 4.9.
Let me start with one idea: setting up a tester team and train them to
correctly report bugs through the forums. Users who want to participate are
added to a special group in bugs.kde.org and get a flag they are allowed to
set to bugs they report to indicate that it has been set in the beta testing.
Beta testers can use the flag to easily search for bugs reported during beta
testing and developers can use it to see that the report has a better quality
than the "normal" bugs.
Cheers
Martin
Hi,
First, sorry for my silence, I was away for a few weeks.
Indeed it's time to get into some action! Gathering a beta testers team
is indeed what we need to do and the bugzilla flag is a very useful idea.
We need to set some time line for this: beta1 release is 30th May and
beta2 is June 13th so we could plan a 4 weeks of intense testing target
(giving dates to people is better in my opinion).
Here is a list of things to do, please add your ideas:
- agree on a timeline
- Dot article to appeal for testers + various social networks
notifications We can use an Etherpad for the article.
when should the article be published?
- when can we train the testers? will we do some IRC training? I think
the emphasis should go on the steps to reproduce the bug. What existing
material do we have to start with in the forums?
- contact distributions to see which ones will package the betas and set
up a wiki page explaining how to install the beta (probably the hardest
step for new testers)
Anne-Marie
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