Christoph Jopp wrote:
There still seems to be a misunderstanding. ... The other thing was that with announcing and publishing Beta Versions and Release Candidates also people without a close connection to the project were attracted to "test" or maybe better to "try out" the new version. And their "bug hunting" might be of some value.
Yes, sure. While we encourage volunteers to help in an "organized" way, "brave users" or "bug hunters" are welcome too. The main problem I see is to provide them with a clear channel for bug reporting/triaging: some of them will report bugs on a mailing list, but won't bother filing a Bugzilla issue. For localized QA the localized mailing lists could do the job, for general QA would it make sense to refer users to the newly created QA list? (Of course the best solution would be to have everybody file their issues properly in Bugzilla, but we can't expect this from everybody).
Regards, Andrea
