Important note...the etherpad version of the Dot story is now an archive only.
The text version is all that sebas and I will be working from. Any changes and suggestions need to come to me so that I can include them and get them to sebas. On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Carl, > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Carl Symons <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Sebastian Kügler <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Friday, May 25, 2012 13:54:09 Carl Symons wrote: >>>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf >>>> >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> > Hi, >>... >> >> An edited version of the Dot story is attached. sebas, this can be >> another section in the Dot Release Announcement similar to >> http://dot.kde.org/2012/01/25/release-48-features-stability-performance. >> >> A few concerns... >> > ... >> >> Is there some information source where potential Beta Testers can >> contact the Quality Team? If someone wants to do this, is there some >> formal way of getting involved? > > Well, the article says where: #kde-quality. Just getting in touch with > us is enough to join :) The topic of the channel tells all needed > information. In the version of this article referred to here, there is no occurrence of #kde-quality. It is clear to you. It wasn't to me. Dot stories go to a lot of people. Many of them have little or no experience with KDE. > >> Where is the list of functional testing items? > > http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta#Upcoming_tests > > But we really want people to get in touch with us first, so giving any > more information is not a good idea, they can get everything needed > from us Easy and useful to add. > >> Are there times for the IRC training? How will people know when to show up? > > Still to be determined. Again, they need to get in touch with us first. Claro. > >> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Building_An_Existing_Application >> is more than I would recommend for "anyone who wants to get involved". >> Ordinary users are not Git-ing. > > Erm, we don't ask people to build from git, nor should they install > anything blindly, all necessary information on how to get a beta > version is here: > > http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta/InstallingBeta1 > >From the Dot story... "The first thing to do is install the beta preferably through your distribution package manager. If it is not provided there, the beta can be compiled from source." At http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Testing/Beta/InstallingBeta1 are instructions for compiling from sources. Following those instructions leads to Git stuff. It's understandable that the Quality Team doesn't want people to go down this path without a guide. The various documents do not support that wish. Please let me know how you want this to be handled. Do you want to advise people not to install from source? In other words, take that out of the story? Change the community wiki page? > And to stress this again: they should get in touch with us first. We > need to know who is testing so we can coordinate, giving away those > links beforehand is not a good idea IMHO. Are the activities of both testing groups coordinated? The story gave me the impression that informal testers install, use and report bugs with no coordination. > >> This story is going to many people. It's worded to appeal to normal >> users. The Program needs to be consistent with this. > > I don't see any contradiction in this :) I do...as it's written. I didn't make that comment gratuitously. My intention is simply to communicate clearly with readers. If it's murky to me, I'm certain that it will be to others. I'm also the main moderator of Dot story comments. And coordinate answers when readers don't understand. I will add the information from what you and sebas sent. Carl > > > Regards, Myriam. > _______________________________________________ Kde-testing mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing
