On 1/27/2011 12:43 PM, Nicole Engard wrote:
Nicole would like to chip in here on lots of points. Paul brings me
up as an example of someone who signs off on the easy to test features
and Ian brings up training/teaching people how to test/sign off. I
think these two things are very important to note. I would sign off
on more complex patches if I wasn't terrified of screwing up my one
and only Koha installation/database. I know I can backup and restore
and all that jazz, but I've never done it and to that end it's scary.
I've screwed up my git repo a few times just trying to test the 'easy'
patches! :)
I would love to be properly trained in doing this so I can test
further. I am on the road a lot and do most of my sign offs while
alone in hotel rooms - that's the perfect quiet time to test!!! So if
someone wants to do a tutorial video or write up detailed instructions
I could do more (and I'm sure others like me could too).
Thanks
Nicole
What would be Really Useful would be a virtual machine (e.g. Amazon EC2
or VMware) with a test environment to "lower the bar" for technical
skills and computer resource availability. That could enable a larger
pool of people who could test branches.
As others pointed out, the worst case is some legacy large patch
branches... having a EC2 test instance might break the logjam on them
but should not be necessary for smaller patches.
Amazon has very good starter terms:
<http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/>
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Free Tier*
As part of AWS’s Free Usage Tier, new AWS customers can get started with
Amazon EC2 for free. Upon sign-up, new AWS customers receive the
following EC2 services each month for one year:
* 750 hours of EC2 running Linux/Unix Micro instance usage
* 750 hours of Elastic Load Balancing plus 15 GB data processing
* 10 GB of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) plus 1 million IOs, 1
GB snapshot storage, 10,000 snapshot Get Requests and 1,000 snapshot Put
Requests
* 15 GB of bandwidth in and 15 GB of bandwidth out aggregated
across all AWS services
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Best regards,
gvb
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